Woman faints in court after husbands gets 12 years in jail
Published: 2013 September 04 18:49:09 (5429 Views)
There was drama at the Bulawayo Magistrates' Court housed at Tredgold Building when a woman collapsed in the courtroom after her husband was sentenced to 12 years in prison for stocktheft.
The woman, whose details could not be obtained, was sitting in the gallery on Tuesday when Bulawayo magistrate Mr Crispen Mberewere convicted her husband Robert Ncube (33) and another man, Vusa Ngwenya (39) of two counts of stocktheft.
Mr Mberewere sentenced Ncube and Ngwenya to 12 years in prison each and suspended three years for five years on condition of good behaviour.
The woman remained calm when Mr Mberewere handed down the sentence and collapsed as the interpreter pronounced the sentence in IsiNdebele.
She was carried out of the courtroom by prison and police officers manning Court 2 and they placed her on the floor in the corridor where a female prison officer rendered first aid.
Ncube and Ngwenya had pleaded guilty to two counts of stocktheft where they stole a steer belonging to Mr Isaiah Moyo at his Uitkijk farm in Fort Rixon before stealing his two donkeys which they used to transport the stolen meat to their homes.
For the State, Miss Concillia Ncube said on 19 August Ncube and Ngwenya went to the farm and slaughtered the steer and left the hide at the scene.
They used Mr Moyo's donkeys to pull a scotch cart full of meat to their homes.
Mr Moyo tracked the wheels of the cart and traces of blood to Ncube's homestead and he reported the matter to the police.
In his defence, Ncube said they found the steer dead in the paddock and skinned it, to which the magistrate said they could have looked for the owner.
Ncube told the court that he skinned the beast because he wanted meat for his family but was sorry for his actions and offered to compensate Mr Moyo.
- Newsbite
The woman, whose details could not be obtained, was sitting in the gallery on Tuesday when Bulawayo magistrate Mr Crispen Mberewere convicted her husband Robert Ncube (33) and another man, Vusa Ngwenya (39) of two counts of stocktheft.
Mr Mberewere sentenced Ncube and Ngwenya to 12 years in prison each and suspended three years for five years on condition of good behaviour.
The woman remained calm when Mr Mberewere handed down the sentence and collapsed as the interpreter pronounced the sentence in IsiNdebele.
She was carried out of the courtroom by prison and police officers manning Court 2 and they placed her on the floor in the corridor where a female prison officer rendered first aid.
Ncube and Ngwenya had pleaded guilty to two counts of stocktheft where they stole a steer belonging to Mr Isaiah Moyo at his Uitkijk farm in Fort Rixon before stealing his two donkeys which they used to transport the stolen meat to their homes.
For the State, Miss Concillia Ncube said on 19 August Ncube and Ngwenya went to the farm and slaughtered the steer and left the hide at the scene.
They used Mr Moyo's donkeys to pull a scotch cart full of meat to their homes.
Mr Moyo tracked the wheels of the cart and traces of blood to Ncube's homestead and he reported the matter to the police.
In his defence, Ncube said they found the steer dead in the paddock and skinned it, to which the magistrate said they could have looked for the owner.
Ncube told the court that he skinned the beast because he wanted meat for his family but was sorry for his actions and offered to compensate Mr Moyo.
- Newsbite
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