Magistrate Chibanda has called Mai Tt to the stand for clarification and Confirm whether she knew that she was convicted on 21 October 2015 and was aware of being ordered to perform community service or not.MAI TT SENTENCING
Magistrate Munashe Chibanda is now dealing with the warrant of arrest that was issued against Murata for defaulting community service.
Lawyer Masango: The warrant of arrest was never brought to her attention. She wasn’t aware that there was a warrant of arrest against her. What I noted from the record was that there was a movement from the initial order to perform community service and Glen View Poly Clinic to
Budiriro. She had raised issues that she was being abused at Glen View Poly Clinic and was changed to Budiriro office. There’s no evidence as to what happened. This case happened when she was 30 years old in 2015, and there was no follow up.
The accused is a socialite and a very popular person and whoever was holding on to the record could have contacted her could have easily contacted her. We pray that the warrant of arrest be cancelled.
May she or pardoned for that lost of memory because even the state, as the custodians of the record were not aware of it due to the passage of time.
Prosecutor Monalisa Magwenzi: State prays that the warrant of arrest be confirmed. She was sentenced in person and she was aware that she had to perform 105 hours of community service but she only performed 19 hours then stopped.
She made no inquiries of the remaining hours for continuous 8 years. She has avoided the question whether she committed the community service. It was her duty to follow up.
She has shown that she is dishonest and untrustworthy as she was insisting that she had never been convicted. She wasted the court’s time and we had to go through 8 years worth of records to find the record. We submit that the default was willful.
She didn’t default today, she defaulted 8 years ago and she can’t claim that she forgot that she had community service hours to perform. May the warrant be confirmed.
