Nare and her accomplice, Precious Bango, were convicted
after a full trial by Harare magistrate Ruth Moyo, who ruled that they had no
defence to proffer as they were recorded on CCTV running around the hotel
naked.
The cocaine was found in their hotel room.
The State, represented by Nomsa Kangara, proved that the
two, together with one Jason Leeroy Pamhidzai, who is at large, checked into
the hotel in the first week of February.
On February 5 at around 6.30pm, Nare and Bango started
behaving weirdly, moving around the hotel corridors naked.
Delegates holding a meeting at the hotel called police who
promptly responded.
They searched their hotel room and recovered the cocaine,
and arrested the two, while Pamhidzai fled with all his belongings.
A preliminary test was run on the recovered substance and
it was confirmed to be 0.2g of cocaine with a street value of $16 000 at the
time.
In their defence, Nare and Bango told the court that it was
Pamhidzai who was sniffing the cocaine.
Nare said she suffers from epilepsy and had seizures, and
started bleeding from the nose. She said Bango then ran around the corridors
seeking help, while Pamhidzai fled. H Metro
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