Drama as police defy magistrate

Tuesday, November 07, 2017

FRANCISTOWN: There was drama on Friday outside the Magistrate Court when police officers defied a ruling by magistrate Cele Lebakeng by re-arresting a Zimbabwean illegal immigrant shortly after he was granted bail.

Pornet Tshuma, 32, of Magova village in Zimbabwe was arrested on August 2 at Tonota and slapped with a charge of trafficking in person after a five-year-old child was found in his custody.

According to the charge sheet, upon being interrogated by the police at the time of his arrest, Tshuma told the police that the child’s mother who resides in South Africa had sent him to bring the child to her.

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Drama as police defy magistrate

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