A former police officer from Lower Gweru and two others last week appeared before Gweru provincial magistrate Pathekile Msipa facing stock theft charges.
Stephen Chadenga
The ex-policeman, Vusimuzi Sithole (43), Moffat Sibanda (68) and Emmanuel Sibanda (25), all from Eastline Farm in Lower Gweru, were remanded out of custody on $50 bail each to November 30 after they pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The state alleges that sometime in October 2015, the trio saw an unattended herd of cattle and drove away four heifers.
The accused persons allegedly sold three branded heifers belonging to Everland Matola and kept one, which was not branded.
The complainant, Matola saw one of his stolen heifers among Sithole’s herd.
Matola reported the matter to the police leading to Sithole’s arrest, who implicated the other two.
