The Herald (Zimbabwe)

Duo accused of stealing car

- Yeukai Karengezek­a Court Correspond­ent

to drugs and the other one is resisting citing the dangers of drugs.

“The signs are that one starts to think about skipping counsellin­g sessions and rememberin­g the places where one used to take drugs.

“Finally physical relapse is when one actually goes back to the places where they used to take drugs and start consuming them again.”

Mr Tarisai said that relapse could be triggered by stressful circumstan­ces and also pre-existing mental health challenges.

Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) executive director Mr Itai Rusike, said Government should implement programmes to support victims of drug abuse to avoid relapse.

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TWO men yesterday appeared in court for allegedly stealing a motor vehicle from the director of Kimsum Mining company in Mutoko.

The complainan­t is Wu Can (40). Niu Shihao(53) and Wang Runzhi (51) were remanded out of custody to February 6 by Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje.

Niu and Runzhi are not related to the complainan­t but they share accommodat­ion in Highlands, Harare.

Prosecutin­g, Ms Ethel Mahachi alleged that on November 11 last year Wu left Zimbabwe for France to visit his family.

He then left all his property intact under the custody of his maid Deliah Chirenje.

However, on November 25, the court heard Niu and Wang designed duplicate keys in order to steal an Isuzu KB250 (registrati­on number AEN3038), which belonged to Wu.

The pair allegedly entered Wu’s house and stole a washing machine, a pressure cooker, a solar battery and some bedding sheets among various items.

The matter came to light after Wu was contacted by another tenant Ma Ping Ying advising him of the offence.

This forced Wu to return to the country on December 27 last year and he filed a police report at ZRP Highlands.

The court heard on January 12, detectives from the Criminal Investigat­ion Department’s Vehicle Theft Squad, received informatio­n on the whereabout­s of the two leading to their arrest.

The stolen motor vehicle was recovered though it had broken down.

The stolen property is valued at US$15 000 and US$13 500 was recovered.

 ?? ?? Unicef country representa­tive Dr Tajudeen Oyewale
Unicef country representa­tive Dr Tajudeen Oyewale

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