He will effectively serve 24 years and eight months in jail.MASVINGO – A 23-year-old Masvingo man will taste freedom when he turns 48-years old after being sentenced to 25 years in jail for 17 counts of armed robbery and robbery.
Tinashe Marufu of Shumba Street in Mucheke was sentenced by Masvingo Magistrate Elizabeth Hanzi on Monday.
Magistrate Hanzi initially sentenced him to 36 years in prison and suspended 10 years for good behavior and another year on condition that he restitutes his victims.
His co-accused Jacob Enjoyment Banda (36) from Gwanda was sentence to 21 years after he was spared the armed robbery charge only to be slapped with another three year and eight months jail terms for seven other robbery counts he committed alone.
