Terrence Mawawa, Gutu | A senior government official severely assaulted his wife for refusing to have unprotected sexual intercourse with him last Friday.

According to court records, Memory Potera is a Provincial Veterinary Officer based in Gwanda and his wife, Letween Chimbi, is a teacher at Mupandawana High School in Gutu.

“Potera wanted to have unprotected sexual intercourse with his wife but the latter declined.

This angered Potera who assaulted his wife with clenched fists,” read the State outline.

However, Potera claimed a strange man knocked at the house and vanished when he realised that Chimbi’ s husband was around.

Gutu Magistrate Edwin Marecha sentenced Potera to three months in prison with the option of paying $ 150 fine.