DESPITE having been married for the past 34 years, a Mutare man shamed his wife by stripping her naked in public following a domestic dispute.
Veronica Chikwinya had to seek shelter at a nearby house with her hands covering her private parts after her husband, Kephas Kunhuwa, assaulted and left her in her birthday suit.
The couple appeared before Mrs Yeukai Chigodora with Chikwinya seeking a protection order against her violent husband.
“We married in 1981 and since then I have been his punching bag. He recently stripped me naked after I had gone to his sister’s funeral in Mozambique and when I came back he assaulted and insulted me.
“He stripped me naked, Your Worship. I had to seek shelter at a nearby house with my hands covering my private parts. Your Worship I looked like a mad woman,” she said.
Kunhuwa admitted to stripping his wife, but blamed his wife for having extra marital relationships.
“At her age she is involved with a very young man who is old enough to be our grandchild and he was also one of our farm hands. That only provoked me and I am sure that she had not gone to my sister’s funeral , but to a honeymoon with her young lover. Of course I did strip her and I am not sorry about that. I do not assault her at all, she is lying to the court,” he said.
Mrs Chigodora asked him how Chikwinya got injured since she had shown the court scars all over her body. “Well, I did push her at one time and she fell,” he said.
Mrs Chigodora ordered Kunhuwa to desist from assaulting, insulting, harassing and disturbing his wife. However, she said she could not order them to separate since it was not in her jurisdiction to do so.-Manica Post