Gumbura appeal to be heard tomorrow

INCARCERATED RMG End Time Message founder, Robert Martin Gumbura’s appeal against both conviction and a 40-year effective jail term is set to be heard at the High Court tomorrow before judges of appeal Justices Charles Hungwe and Edith Mushore.

The appeal was supposed to be heard in August last year, but was postponed indefinitely when Gumbura’s lawyers and the Prosecutor-General’s (PG) representative were locked in a showdown over how to proceed with the matter.

Gumbura was in February 2014 slapped with a 50-year jail term by Harare regional magistrate, Hosea Mujaya, who convicted him on four counts of rape and a count of possessing pornographic material, but suspended 10 years on condition of good behaviour.

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