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A Masvingo panel beater who was arraigned before the courts for robbing and raping one of his victims was sentenced to 40 years behind bars by a Masvingo Magistrate.
Regional magistrate Bishard Chineka jailed Tinashe Chirume(40) of the Pangolin suburb, for an effective 40 years after convicting him of robbery and rape at the end of a full trial due to overwhelming evidence.
Chirume, who was naked and armed with a machete, stormed a house in the Target Kopje suburb, where three female Great Zimbabwe University students were sleeping and robbed US$10 from his first victim before getting US$5 from the second victim.
He then ordered his first victim to lie on her bed on her back before proceeding to rape her once without protection.
The state led by regional prosecutor Mr Liberty Hove also proved that after violating his first victim, Chirume again tried to rape the second student who then jumped out of the room through the window screaming for help forcing the convict to flee from the house.
Luck ran out for Chirume after he was positively identified by his victims’ friends who alerted the police leading to his arrest at Pangolin Light Industries in the city.
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