Own Correspondent

A Marange teenager has been sentenced to 18 years in jail after being convicted of stock theft.

Talent Samupindi aged 19 was jailed after pleading guilty to two counts of stock theft when he appeared in court.

Samupindi was given the mandatory sentence of 9 years each for the two counts of stock theft involving 10 cattle.

He was arrested after police got a tip-off that he was selling heifers in a neighbouring village.