By A correspondent- An attorney representing Vice President Constantine Chiwenga’s wife Mary, Ms Biatrice Mtetwa has challenged the courts for taking more than a year to establish a case against her client.

Mary has been on remand for 15 months now with the court failing to put her on trial.

Mtetwa challenged the court today when she applied for refusal for further remand of Maru where she argued that the courts were now persecuting her client.

Mary is on remand on a case in which she is being accused of attempting to kill the Vice President when he was in hospital in South Africa.
She is also facing allegations of money laundering.

Ms Mtetwa told the court that the State had promised to complete investigations a month into her arrest, but has failed.

Ms Mtetwa also told the court that the State was aware of the complexity of extra-territorial investigations when they made a one month promise.

She made the application after the State led by Mrs Mushayabasa applied for a postponement of the matter to allow police to complete investigations into the matter.

Mrs Mushayabasa told the court that there were extra-territorial investigations that need to be carried out in South Africa.

She appeared before regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje.