Police in Karoi on Thursday 29 July 2010 arrested three teachers and a security guard for allegedly assaulting a Karoi resident. The teachers namely Rorden Matsaure aged 32, Innocent Nyoni (34), Clifford Muchingami (30) and Patrick Murira (39), a security guard appeared in court on Monday 2 August, 2010 for initial remand.The State alleges that the teachers who are stationed at Hesketh Primary School in Karoi contravened section 89 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act Chapter 9:23 when they teamed up to assault Freeman Svova on 29
July 2010 around 21:30 hrs.
The State stated that the three teachers unlawfully and intentionally caused
bodily harm to Svova when they assaulted him once on the forehead, using a
brick, once at the back using a gumtree branch and all over the body using
booted foot, clenched palms (sic), and open hands thereby causing inflicting
injuries.
The State claims that the teachers assaulted Svova after he alleged during a
discussion whilst drinking beer in a bar that they were spoiling school
children by teaching them some Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) slogans
at school and they had ended up singing some of the party’s songs and
slogans at home.
As a result of the alleged assault the State claims that Svova sustained
some injuries on the head, wounds on his face, back ache, chest pains and a
swollen eye.
However, the teachers have denied the assault charges and claim that they
were being victimized for challenging some soldiers at a meeting convened on
27 July, 2010 near the school, where the soldiers were allegedly coaching
people on making contributions during a meeting held ahead of a
constitutional outreach meeting to solicit people’s contributions to a draft
constitution.
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