TWO Mbire men who snared and killed a lioness and a warthog
worth US$22 000 in Mushumbi Pools were on Friday last week jailed to 17 months
each by Guruve magistrate Shingirai Mutiro.
Clement Hwata (22) and Lameck Kataura (20) both from
Chiwapura Village, Mushumbi Pools had 12 months of their sentences set aside on
condition that they pay US$22 000 restitution to Angwa Safari, while the
remaining five months were also suspended on condition that they pay a fine of
$500 to the State.
Prosecutor Carson Kundiona told the court that on October
31, game rangers were on patrol at Angwa Safari in Mushumbi Pools when they saw
some footprints which led to the convicts’ home.
The duo was found in possession of 15kg of dried warthog
meat and confessed that they had killed it with a snare.
They were then arrested and taken to their trap, where the
rangers discovered that the wire snare had also killed a lioness.
In another case, a Bindura burglar will serve seven months
behind bars for breaking into two shops at Chipadze shopping centre in the
farming town and stealing goods worth $24 000.
Lazarus Chakungama (23) appeared before Bindura magistrate
Pamella Chimhini last week.
The court heard that on October 30 at around midnight,
Chakungama and his two accomplices, who are still at large, broke into Webster
Chakara’s shop and stole two television sets and radios, among other electrical
appliances.
They took the goods to a house in Chipadze for safekeeping
before proceeding to shop number 105 York Street in the same neighbourhood,
where they stole groceries.
They were sold out by residents who bought their loot at
cheap prizes. Police only recovered goods worth $6 967. Newsday
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