A 34-YEAR-OLD man from Gamba Village,Hwange, has been slapped with a US$150 fine after threatening to murder a fellow villager who had refused to marry off his daughter to him.
Irvine Shoko appeared at the Hwange Magistrates Court facing one count of threatening to commit murder and another charge of possession of prohibited knives.
Shoko was ordered to pay a US$150 fine or face three months in jail.
He was also sentenced to a wholly suspended three-month jail term on condition that he does not commit a similar offence in the next five years.
On June 6 at around 10pm, Shoko went to the Possent Nyathi’s homestead and declared that he wanted to marry his daughter.
The court heard that Nyathi told Shoko that it was not possible since his daughter was already married to another man.
This did not go down well with Shoko, who shouted at Nyathi and threatened to kill him, according to the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbabwe.
A police report was made, leading to the arrest of Shoko.
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He was searched by the police and was found in possession of an okapi knife, a prohibited weapon.
