Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Maxwell Takuva sentenced Conillius Vundla (33) of Tsholotsho to 28 years in prison after convicting him of murder. Vundla together with three accomplices fatally assaulted Chance Mpala (33) after a misunderstanding over an undisclosed prophecy at a business centre. In passing sentence Justice Takuva said,
There is an element of gangsterism in that you teamed up against deceased and assaulted him. The courts must ensure that this tendency of gangsters roaming around business centres terrorising villagers should stop.
People should go to these places for merrymaking, not to be butchered. Courts must ensure that this tendency of gangsters roaming around business centres terrorising villagers should stop. You have not shown remorse and your defence has been a pack of lies calculated at misleading the court to acquit you.
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