ZIMBABWE: MURDERER SENTENCED TO HANG

September 18, 2012: In Zimbabwe, a man who hacked a three-year-old girl to death last year was sentenced to death.
Senior Bulawayo High Court Judge, Justice Nicholas Ndou, handed Kelvin Takwana Mutyorauri the death sentence sitting on circuit in Gweru.
Mutyorauri, of Mutyorauri Village, Chief Njelele in Gokwe South District, lured the girl into a bush last year before hacking her to death and leaving part of her body covered by a drum.
Mutyorauri had pleaded not guilty to murdering Gamuchirai Mvumba but Justice Ndou sitting with assessors Messrs James Lex Dhlula and Wellington Takawira Matemba found him guilty of murder with actual intent.
The court found that there was no extenuating circumstances and sentenced him to death.
It was also the judge's view that Mutyorauri had shown no remorse in the manner he killed the child and he only worsened things when he tried to hide his crime by leaving the girl's remains in the bush.
Mutyorauri, who was aged 25 when he committed the crime, had told the court that the now deceased child, Gamuchirai Mvumba, died after she was accidentally hit by a ladder that he was using when roofing a hut.
He was represented pro deo by Zvishavane lawyer, Mr Tichaona Chivasa, of Chivasa and Associates.
Mutyorauri was already serving another jail term of 22 years for a rape case that he committed in Gokwe some years back. (Sources: bulawayo24.com, 21/09/2012)