Post by sclcookie on Jun 1, 2006 15:52:43 GMT -5
Zim court hands death sentence to farmer's killer
A man who gunned down a white Zimbabwean farmer 4 years ago has been
sentenced to death by the Zimbabwe High Court, reports said on Wednesday.
Munetsi Kadzinga (31) was sentenced to death by high court Judge Bharat
Patel on Tuesday after he was convicted of murdering farmer Charles
Anderson in 2002, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported.
"The court is of the unanimous opinion that there are no extenuating
circumstances in this case. It follows that I have no option but to impose
the morally invidious but legally inescapable sentence of death upon the
accused," Patel was quoted as saying.
Kadzinga and an accomplice ransacked Anderson's farmhouse in Mashonaland
central province in June 2002. Kadzinga shot and killed Anderson, a father
of 2, as he arrived back home with his family before escaping with a
vehicle and looted property.
More than a dozen white farmers have been murdered since President Robert
Mugabe launched his controversial white land seizures in 2000. But very
few of the perpetrators have been arrested or convicted in court.
Earlier in the trial Patel dismissed Kadzinga's claim that he had been
told to carry out attacks on white farmers by senior government officials,
including the then-Home Affairs Minister, John Nkomo.
(source: South African Press Agency)
A man who gunned down a white Zimbabwean farmer 4 years ago has been
sentenced to death by the Zimbabwe High Court, reports said on Wednesday.
Munetsi Kadzinga (31) was sentenced to death by high court Judge Bharat
Patel on Tuesday after he was convicted of murdering farmer Charles
Anderson in 2002, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported.
"The court is of the unanimous opinion that there are no extenuating
circumstances in this case. It follows that I have no option but to impose
the morally invidious but legally inescapable sentence of death upon the
accused," Patel was quoted as saying.
Kadzinga and an accomplice ransacked Anderson's farmhouse in Mashonaland
central province in June 2002. Kadzinga shot and killed Anderson, a father
of 2, as he arrived back home with his family before escaping with a
vehicle and looted property.
More than a dozen white farmers have been murdered since President Robert
Mugabe launched his controversial white land seizures in 2000. But very
few of the perpetrators have been arrested or convicted in court.
Earlier in the trial Patel dismissed Kadzinga's claim that he had been
told to carry out attacks on white farmers by senior government officials,
including the then-Home Affairs Minister, John Nkomo.
(source: South African Press Agency)