BULAWAYO businesswoman Anna Moyo and three suspected accomplices appeared in court last Thursday facing charges of kidnapping a woman from Shangani Mine as ransom after failing to locate the latter’s alleged con artist husband.
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The four were not asked to plead to the charge of kidnapping Lillian Gumbo when they briefly appeared before magistrate Abednicho Ndebele. Moyo is being charged alongside Sazini Ncube (38) of Makokoba, Tinashe Mhunhi (23) and Benjamin Mlauzi (36), both of Fort Rixon in Matabeleland South.
Moyo and Ncube, represented by lawyer Costa Dube, were released on $50 bail, but their two alleged accomplices Mhunhi and Mlauzi were remanded in custody to February 13 for trial.
The court heard that on January 26 this year, the four went to Gumbo’s house at Shangani Mine and kidnapped her after failing to locate her husband whom they accused of duping them of an undisclosed amount of money.
They allegedly drove her to Lochard in Shangani where they put up for the night. The following morning they went back to her house to unlock her children who had been left sleeping.
They later took Gumbo to Bulawayo and then to Silobela in the Midlands.
Police launched a hunt, leading to their arrest.
