35 years jail for murdering councillor

A VICTORIA Falls man who fatally struck a Hwange Rural District councillor with a brick in a cold-blooded murder has been sentenced to a 35-year prison term.

Admire Ndlovu (38) of Monde Village, Victoria Falls, was convicted of murder with actual intent when he appeared before Bulawayo High Court judge, Justice Maxwell Takuva during the second term of the Hwange circuit.

Justice Takuva described the murder of Phinias Dennis Thebe, councillor for Monde ward, as brutal and callous.

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