High Court frees police cell arsonist

A DARING man stormed the Mahusekwa Police Station, hurled insults at police officers and removed clothes from a washing line before being locked up in holding cells, where he burnt the blankets after sticking in with some matches.

Brighton Mashapaidze was, however, saved by the High Court from serving the whole seven months effective jail term for the act on review.

High Court judges Justices Lucy Mungwari and Faith Mushure granted Mashapaidze a warrant of liberation after spending two months in prison.

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