An angry pastor has thrown caution to the wind and descended heavily on a man by beating him mercilessly in public.
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A pastor has descended heavily on a
drunkard and merciless beat him to stupor in revenge over what he
did. The Zion church pastor went on rampage and descended on the
drunkard after her burnt down their church and striking a church member
with an axe.
B-metro gathered that Eliphas Ncube of
Sishowe village in Zimbabwe appeared at the Bulawayo magistrates court
before magistrate Charity Maphosa on charges of malicious damage to
property and assault.
Revealing details of the incident,
Jeremiah Mutsindikwa, prosecuting told the court that on 30 July 2016 at
about 9pm Pastor Innocent Ncube was conducting a church service with
other villagers including the accused’s wife when he arrived.
The drunk man disrupted the church
service demanding to see his wife. After being stopped by other church
members, he left and came back a few minutes later armed with an axe and
okapi knife.
The accused threatened to kill Pastor
Innocent Ncube and the church members all ran away leaving him at the
scene. He then took a burning log and set the church on fire, destroying
everything in it to ashes.
He destroyed a hut valued at $500, a
Bible $20, utensils $100, 12 blankets $180, church furniture (chairs,
tables and bench) $100 and groceries worth $21.
After burning the church, the accused
went on to a bedroom hut belonging to Esther Ndlovu, the owner of the
homestead where the church was built, and used the same log to set the
room on fire destroying property valued at $7 042 that included 12
blankets, 4 duvets, six suitcases containing clothes, utensils, two
bicycles, two bags of cement and the room.
Upon realising that the accused had
burnt the church and Ndlovu’s room, Pastor Ncube and another church
leader, whose name was not mentioned are said to have lost their tempers
and beat him up.
According to Mutsindikwa, the accused
left the scene armed heading to his homestead. On his way he met Emily
Mlalazi, a church member, who was heading to Zion church. As a way of
vengeance and without saying anything, the accused struck Mlalazi once
on the left shoulder and twice on the upper part of the left leg with
the back of the axe he was carrying.
In his defence the accused said he did not remember meeting Mlalazi and hitting her with the back of an axe.
“Your worship, I went straight home after the incident I did not meet the lady. I was drunk but I do not remember meeting her,” he said.
Ncube was remanded in custody and will appear on 16 September for sentencing.
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