Zim thief finds God
… and disrupts trial to pray A “SERIAL” car thief from Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo found God in court and suddenly asked to be given time to pray in the middle of a trial before pleading guilty and confessing his misdeeds. Farai Mlauzi, 32, who ass already serving a 19-year jail term for robbery and carjacking, gave in to a prosecutor’s cross examination and revised an earlier plea of not guilty. He was jointly charged with Hloniphani Ndlovu, 31, also from the same city. The pair would burn the hijacked cars after stripping them of valuables. Magistrate Joseph Mabeza…
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Man trapped in Durban trench for over 5 hours
A man has been trapped in a trench at a residential property in Kloof, Durban, for more than five hours, paramedics said on Thursday. Paramedics were alerted to the incident around at 14:00, and when they arrived on the scene they found the 30-year-old man trapped in soil from his shoulders down, ER24 spokesperson Werner Vermaak said. “It is understood that he was busy digging a foundation area when the walls collapsed onto him,” Vermaak said. He said the fire department, police and other emergency services were on the scene helping to stabilise the ground in order to free the…
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UK ‘castrates’ child abusers
Jailed paedophiles will be chemically castrated or given behaviour altering medication while in prison in a new drive to stem tide of sex offences Paedophiles are being given so-called ‘chemical castration’ treatment under a new scheme being expanded in British prisons. Six jails are offering child abusers drugs to reduce sexual interest and obsessive behaviour while they serve their sentences. Sex offenders have to opt into the treatment, which is being expanded under the NHS (National Health Service) this year amid rows over how to deal with the growing numbers of reported sex crimes. The idea of offering behaviour altering…
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