By A Correspondent- A man from Epworth has been jailed 30 years for robbing and killing a soldier.

Besta Masaya, who was charged along with Tonderai Rupiya, denied killing Innocent Majuta who was in army uniform in November 2018, near a footbridge linking Domboramwari and Maseko residential suburbs, when he appeared before High Court judge Justice Tawanda Chitapi, but was convicted after a full trial.

According to a post-mortem report by two Government doctors, Majuta died of severe brain and head injuries.

Justice Chitapi last week convicted Masaya of murder with constructive intent, in view of the circumstantial evidence and his statement to the police confessing to being an accomplice to the murder.

He sentenced him to 30 years’ imprisonment. However, Rupiya was acquitted at the close of the State case.-StateMedia