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(HERALD) Mbare clashes: Municipal cop faces murder charges

COMMENT - A cop commits a crime, and a week later he is in court on murder charges. Let the MDC try and spin that. Down with police brutality and torture.

Mbare clashes: Municipal cop faces murder charges
Court Reporter

A municipal police officer who allegedly killed a vendor at Chishawasha Grounds in Mbare last week on Monday has appeared in court facing murder charges.

Anos Zharare (25) was not asked to plead to the charges when he appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Archie Wochiunga.

The magistrate remanded him in custody to November 30 this year and advised him to apply for bail at the High Court. Outlining the State’s case, prosecutor Mrs Phillis Zvekare told the court that on November 9 this year at Chishawasha Grounds in Mbare, Zharare was on duty as a municipal policeman dressed in civilian clothes.

He was patrolling the area with other officers as part of the Harare City Council’s blitz on vendors and touts.

They were tasked by Sergeant Gangaidze to arrest vendors along their way to Mupedzanhamo Flea Market where they intended to arrest other people engaging in activities contrary to the city’s by-laws.

It is alleged they tried to arrest vendors who fled from them in different directions.

Zharare allegedly singled out and chased Godfrey Tonde who was running towards a football ground and when he got closer to him he tripped him with his leg.

Tonde, it is alleged, flew into the air and dropped headfirst to the ground and lay motionless.

His fellow vendors and touts took the body to the municipal offices in Mbare and dumped it there.

Police then ferried the body to Harare Hospital and later arrested Zharare after a tip-off from members of the public.

Labels: POLICE BRUTALITY

posted by MrK @ 12:09 PM