A HARARE man who duped Nyasa Air Charter in a botched US$1, 5 million partnership deal has been remanded in custody to next week Tuesday for the court's ruling on his default enquiry.
James Landon, who is also accused of threatening the Nyasa Air Charter representative Adam Woodington, failed to report to the police station as ordered on his bail conditions, resulting in his arrest.
Two further witnesses Victoria Bradenkamp and investigating officer detective sergeant Katsande testified against Landon saying he interfered with them.
The investigating officer told magistrate Stanford Mambanje this morning that she had to seek Landon's bail revocation after realising that he always violated his bail conditions.
The police officer told court that this was the second time Landon had violated his bail conditions by threatening witnesses and failing to report as ordered by the court.
She said the claim that he was in hospital could be a lie because he had never communicated with her as the investigating officer.
Landon was arrested while being holed in a Honda Fit vehicle parked at the court premises as police officers went about searching for him to effect the court order.
The accused was supposed to appear in court on April 17, but absconded leading to the issuance of a warrant of arrest.
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Two months ago, Landon was brought to court after he breached his bail conditions by talking to the complainants in the fraud matter before he threatened him.
He was also gagged from speaking to media after he caused the publication of information that is yet to be presented to court.
Landon is on $150 000 bail and was ordered not to interfere with witnesses as part of his bail conditions.
Woodington had told court that Landon sent him five threatening text messages. He also allegedly sent threatening messages to another witness Hastings Jailos Lumbadzi based in Malawi saying he wanted to destroy him.
Landon also sent messages to complainant Gavin Bredenkamp and his wife Victoria threatening them.
However, his lawyers Munyaradzi Midzi and Innocent Chingarande, said their client sent the messages by mistake.
