A DARING illegal diamond miner who did the unthinkable by
stealing a cell phone worth $800 from a nurse who had treated his injured leg
has been convicted of theft on his own plea of guilty.
Thomas Chigora (22), of Farikai Village under Chief
Marange, was convicted on his own plea of guilty when he appeared before Mutare
magistrate Ms Perseverance Makala, last Thursday.
Allegations were that on November 27, 2018, Chigora was at
ZCDC Clinic in Chiadzwa for wound treatment on his left leg.
Sakile Ndlovu attended to him. After attending to Chigora,
Ndlovu went outside to call a security guard to help chuck him out after he had
been unmasked as an illegal diamond miner at the mine.
While Ndlovu was outside, Chigora took a Samsung cellphone
and sneaked out of the room. Chigora handed the phone to Admire Gomba and told
him that the mobile gadget was his.
He promised to collect it after being cleared by the
security guards that had arrested him for alleged illegal diamond mining
activities at the mine.
When Ndlovu failed to locate her phone, she alerted the
security guards and a search was conducted.
The phone was then found in the possession of Gomba. Gomba
told the guards that the cell phone belonged to Chigora. The value of the
stolen phone was $800 and it was recovered. Manica Post
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