Komichi trial time too short – lawyer

HARARE magistrate Tendai Mahwe, who is presiding over MDC–T deputy national chairman Morgan Komichi’s trial, yesterday said the court was unable to allocate the time that the defence was asking for because the court had other matters to deal with.

Komichi’s lawyer, Alec Muchadehama, had complained over the little time that the case was being allocated after it sat for only one session yesterday.

Mahwe, however, said the court could not afford to give the trial three sessions a day because it had a huge workload that needed to be dealt with and in some of the cases, witnesses would have travelled to attend court.

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