Marry granted $1 500 bail

VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife, Marry Mubaiwa, was yesterday granted $1 500 bail by a High Court judge after spending a week in remand prison on charges of assaulting her maid.

Marry, who is denying the charge of assaulting Delight Munyoro at Hellenic Primary School where she had gone to collect the couple’s child, was initially denied bail by Harare magistrate Bianca Makwande, who ruled that the State had proved that she had a propensity of committing offences while on bail.

But Justice Erica Ndewere said Makwande erred in relying on mere common assault allegations, whereas Marry had no previous convictions.

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