The jailed Johanne Masowe eChishanu Vapositori sect leader Ishmael Chokurongerwa
has failed to obtain a bail release.
Madzibaba Ishmael’s hopes were dashed when the High Court dismissed it for lack of merit.
Justice Garainesu Mawadza ruled declaring there are no prospects of success on appeal for the cop basher leader.
The court dismissed Chokurongerwa’s application for bail pending appeal ruling that the lower court had properly assessed the credibility of the state witnesses’ evidence and that he found no fault in the judgement of the lower court.
Justice Mawadza said it is not in dispute that public violence occurred at the Budiriro shrine resulting in the assault and subsequent injuries on police officers, journalists and members of the Apostolic Christian Council of Zimbabwe while what was in dispute was Chokurongerwa’s presence at the shrine.
He said Chokurongerwa in his defence outline failed to set grounds for the truthfulness of his alibi and failed to give all material facts relevant to his defence leaving the court to exercise its discretion.
On the sentence he said the 5-year jail term imposed on Chokurongerwa was commensurate with the seriousness of the offence, considering that people were seriously injured while state equipment was damaged.
He said the interests of due administration of justice and the rights of the appellant were balanced.-State Media
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He is just being punished more. If this was a bigger crime done by someone in a higher office they would have been granted bail pending appeal. And we know that would be the end of the story once the individual was out. That’s justice in Zimbabwe. The long arm of the law only works on the poor, the nobodies and for political expediency. You want real justice? Get it from God!