The hearing was set for Tuesday but had to be pushed to a day later after state prosecutors indicated they were not yet ready. The defence team, led by Jeremiah Bamu is hoping a ‘change in circumstances’ and the ‘weakening’ of the state case will work in favour of their clients.
The eight are part of a group of 24 MDC-T activists facing trumped up charges of murdering a police officer at Glen View 3 Shopping Centre in May. The police officer was killed by unknown revellers at a night club and the MDC-T has dismissed the murder charges as false and trumped up.
16 of the arrested group have been granted bail and were released from jail. The eight who were denied bail two weeks ago are; Tungamirai Madzokere, Stanford Maengahama, Phenias Nhatarikwa, Stanford Mangwiro, Yvonne Musarurwa, Rebecca Mafukeni, Cynthia Fungai Manjoro and Lazarus Maengahama. The eight activists have now been detained in remand prison for over eight weeks.