Cops acquitted on assault charges

Two police officers, their former colleague and a maid, who were accused of assaulting a man, who had been accused of theft when they were arresting him, were on Monday found not guilty and acquitted by a Bulawayo magistrate at the close of the State’s case.

The former police officer, Livingstone Sango, Inspector Martin Chivandire (42), who is an officer-in-charge stationed at Drill Hall, Inspector Innocentia Makhelina Ncube (54), who is an officer-in-charge of the Criminal Investigation Department’s drugs and narcotics unit and the maid, Nomsa Ngwenya, denied the charge when they appeared before Gladmore Mushove.

The four were alleged to have assaulted Vinnie Kumbirai Ngoreta on March 12 this year after they arrested her for theft of a T-shirt.

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