H-Metro|Controversial politician Linda Masarira was in court yesterday where she testified against her ‘drug addict’ son over theft of a cellphone.

Masarirs’s son, Kuzikwashe Mhlanga pleaded not guilty before Harare magistrate Madondo.

The State led by Strike Mutongerwa opened its case by leading evidence from Masarira who told the court that it was her husband, one Gilbert who noticed that the phone was missing.

“We began looking for him before his friends advised us to go to Greencroft Shopping Centre where they searched for houses till we bumped into an old neighbour Kudzanai Mushai who said he had seen him at a place commonly referred to as ‘pamadrugs’.

“We went to the place and found him, he tried to run away saying that he had left the phone at home but he later produced the phone from his pocket and had deleted all its contents, logging onto his social media accounts,” said Masarira.

When she was advised that in his defence, her son said he only used the phone to do an EcoCash transaction and returned it, she said:

“He’s a liar and the only true thing he says is his name, he is a serial drug addict and I have gone out of my way to help him but he refuses to reform and have withdrawn two theft cases before against this boy as I had felt sorry for him.”

The matter was deferred to today for the defence case.