WTF AFRICA- MOTHER POSSESSED AFTER SON’S VERDICT READ

Business temporarily came to a standstill at the Harare magistrates’ court last Friday after a woman whose son had been convicted of three counts of rape went berserk and threatened cops and court officials. The woman threw her tantrums while sitting in the court gallery.

Gilbert Jacob’s mother could not stomach her son’s conviction as she started making noises as magistrate Sandra Mupindu was reading the judgment. When the female court orderly went to caution her and asked her to leave the court room, the ‘possessed’ woman resisted and she only agreed to go out after the intervention of a male prison officer.

Gilbert’s mother was then taken to the court Police Post where she was detained but she did not stop shaking and making noise. Efforts by the cops to calm the woman down proved fruitless as she started shouting all words she could think of, most of them being being vulgar words.

“Usandibate, unoziva zvandafambira pano? Zvino nhasi munondiona, nhasi hameno zvichaitika pano, yohweeeee,” she shouted.

The woman’s screams were so loud thst she disturbed business in other courts forcing the cops to take her out of the building.

“Munondibatirei? Hamuzivi zvandafambira pano. Mwana wangu kani. Mwana wangu kani,” she yelled.

A male cop, who ordered her to stand up and go out of the Police Post was insulted with some deep vulgar words and by this time, a huge crowd had gathered at the scene. Gilbert’s mother was escorted outside the building and this time around, she was calm and she went and sat at the car park.

Meanwhile, her son remained in court, pleading with the court for a lenient sentence. Appearing for the State, prosecutor Tinashe Kanyemba-Makiya, however, lambasted Gilbert’s conduct saying the court should impose a custodial sentence.

Magistrate Mupindu will this Friday give the reasons for Gilbert’s sentence as the convict was ordered to go for an HIV test after it was revealed that the complainant had tested HIV positive