THREE Zanu PF youths were arraigned before Bindura
Magistrates Courts yesterday facing charges of beating a suspected thief to
death.
Zivanai Nyazvigodi (38), Alexio Kurai Gondo (26) and Naison
Tandaude(31), all from Simoona Farm, were ordered by the High Court to answer
to an assault charge after they were initially charged with murder.
The trio pleaded not guilty to the charge before magistrate
Moreblessing Makati, who remanded them out of custody to Tuesday for trial.
Prosecutor Vincent Marunya alleged that on May 8 in 2008,
and at Simoona Farm, police released the now deceased Nicholas Muringanidze
after he had been arrested for stealing an electric motor.
On the same day, when the Zanu PF youths heard that the
deceased had been released they teamed up with another suspect, who is still at
large and went to Muringanidze’s homestead where they introduced themselves as
Zanu PF youths before taking him to a disused house which they used as their
headquarters.
The quartet ordered him to lie down and took turns to
assault him on his buttocks until he admitted to the offence, leading to the
recovery of the missing electric motor.
After assaulting him they took him back to the police
station, but Maringanidze eventually died on October 7 of that year from
injuries he had sustained. Newsday
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