74 year old Peter Hingeston was forced off his Lowveld sugar cane farm in the mid 2000s and ‘retired’ to a house and plot of land in Vumba. But it’s believed that a top police official wants that property and for the last four years Hingeston has been fighting to stay there.
The President of the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), Charles Taffs, told SW Radio Africa on Friday that Hingeston was meant to appear in court last Friday. But Hingeston, who suffers from high blood pressure and who Taffs said “is not a well man,” missed his court date for medical reasons.
“He had a legitimate medical reason and excuse for not making that court appearance. His lawyer said it would be fine, and in a normal situation is would be,” Taffs explained.
But Hingeston was arrested on the same day he missed that court date and has been held behind bars ever since.
A very angry Taffs explained that the police are delaying Hingeston’s bail attempts, with excuses that the case details have been ‘mislaid’. The former farmer will now remain behind bars until next week, after a bail hearing was postponed on Friday.
“This is absolutely unacceptable! This has nothing to do with land reform. This is just about greed. We are hearing that there is a police official from Mutare who wants this house, and that is all that this is about,” Taffs said.
He added: “We have no one to turn to. No courts, no political party, no police to help. No one. And it is completely unacceptable!” Taffs said.
Hingeston is expected to face a bail hearing next Tuesday. SW Radio Africa
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Really sorry for the old man (farmer)
Wait and see when God stands up against such greedy men to show them that He is defender oF The Defenceless!
Mr policeman,THERE IS A GOD BEFORE WHOM YOU HAVE TO STAND ONE DAY.THE Chiadzwa DIAMONDS CAN NOT PROCURE ENOUGH DOLLARS IN THIS LIFE FOR U TO BRIBE HIM INTO TURNING A BLIND EYE ON YOUR SUCH EVIL…U need to repent
and I just wonder how someone will go to bed,wake up in the morning,still not spoken to by the still voice of his consciense…and going on to drug his innocent children and grand children into a CURSE OF SUCH MAGNITUDE…It is simple ngozi for such a man to be made to sleep in cells for his right,BUT IT BECOMES A WORSE NGOZI to kick him out of his ‘last’ and only property….WAKE UP TO THIS FACT judges and policeman