Zimbabwe: Prisoner Dares Justice Hungwe

13 March 2014

Daniel Nemukuyu — Jonathan Mutsinze, who has been languishing in remand prison for 11 years allegedly awaiting sentence on murder and robbery charges, yesterday said he was never convicted and challenged Justice Charles Hungwe to prove that he found him guilty. In a supplementary affidavit filed at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday in response to Justice Hungwe's statement explaining the delay in finalisation of the matter, Mutsinze challenged the judge to prove that he had ever been convicted and that he was involved in the alleged disappearance of the court record.

Mutsinze was convicted of murdering a police officer and a security guard and robbery in 2003, but Justice Hungwe never sentenced him because the record of court proceedings disappeared.

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