AN insatiable appetite for peanut butter has landed a 41-year-old Mutare man in trouble after he was recently caught stealing the foodstuff from a local supermarket.
BY KENNETH NYANGANI
Cryston Manyore on Wednesday left the court in stitches after he confessed that poverty pushed him to steal a 375ml bottle of peanut butter valued at $1,69 to feed his family.
Mutare magistrate Lazarus Murendo ordered him to pay $20 fine or serve a custodial sentence of one week for the offence.
“My lord it’s a sign of poverty. l wanted to use the peanut butter for cooking, l have a wife and three children,’’ Manyore said.
The magistrate could not hold his laughter joining those in the gallery.
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According to prosecutor Fletcher Karombe on Tuesday, the convict entered TM Supermarket, 2018 and took one kg of salt and a 375ml bottle of peanut butter.
Manyore hid the peanut butter in his jacket and proceeded to a point of exit without paying. He was arrested by the informant who searched him and recovered the peanut butter .