Mmegi/The Reporter (Gaborone)
4 November 2009
A 68-year-old robbery victim yesterday told court of his encounter with assailants who stole his cell phone and hypertension medication.
Lekgobo Makolo also told the court about how he managed to identify his phone when it was later recovered by the police.
Peter Gerald, a Zimbabwean national, is facing robbery charges.
Makolo told the court that he had been sleeping with his wife when the robbery occurred.
"We went to bed at around 10pm and we deliberately left one bedroom window open because my blood pressure was irregular and I needed fresh air," he said.
He said that at around 1am he heard noises and he woke up only to find the window now wide open."
He said when he looked outside he saw someone sprinting away from the yard next door and "I shouted that I had seen him but someone outside our window hit me with some heavy object in my face and I fell backwards," he said.
Makolo said that he asked his wife to get him his gun and call the police who came soon afterwards.
"I was injured on my left eye and I was bleeding," he said.
He said when he came back from the hospital later that he discovered that his cell phone and his medication had been stolen in the raid. Makolo added that after sometime the police brought his cell phone, his medication and other items in a bag so he could identify their property.
"I was later called to the police station and showed the accused person and the person told me that they found him with the stuff. They then asked me how I could identify my cell phone and I told them that whenever I switched my phone on, it wrote my full names and that it had a gospel ring-tone," he said.
He said that he verified that with the police but he had never seen the accused person before.
The accused person (Gerald) said that he did not steal the phone but that he bought it from someone. However, he would not state where he got the hypertension medication.
The case is before Senior Magistrate Peggy Madandume and DPP Azhani Mokokomane represents for the state. The case continues.
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