Beitbridge lawyer, Patrick Tererai of Tereral Legal Practitioners allegedly shot Samuel Nyamunga (21) on the temple and hit Honest Sebata (23) on the back and later bribed them with $150 each to entice them to sneak out of Beitbridge District Hospital where they were admitted.
Police officer commanding Beitbridge district, Chief Superintendent Francis Phiri, confirmed the incident yesterday to NewsDay but declined to give further details so as not to compromise ongoing investigations. Last week Thursday, staff at Beitbridge District Hospital filed a report of two missing patients with a source at the hospital confirming that they admitted Nyamunga and Sebata before they vanished during the night following Tererai’s visit. Police, acting on a report of “patients that fled”, found the two, who live two houses away from Tererai.
Yesterday, NewsDay interviewed Nyamunga and Sebata, who both are petrol vendors. The two said Tererai opened fire on them without provocation while Tererai said he shot the two after they attempted to steal fuel from his car. The lawyer is being charged with the lesser offence of assault and he justified himself arguing that the case cannot be attempted murder since he used a pellet gun and that the gun cannot even kill a guinea fowl.
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