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28-year-old Isheanesu Dzingiso of Somabhula, who broke into a 68-year-old granny’s house, assaulted her, before raping her five times and sodomising her twice was sentenced to 60 years of imprisonment in Zimbabwe.
It is reported that for count one and two Dzingiso was sentenced to 10 years in prison and for counts three to seven he was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for each leaving him with an effective 50 years in jail, according to iHarare.
Bulawayo High Court judge Justice Martin Makonese sitting with Justice Thompson James Mabhikwa during a criminal appeals court reduced the sentence to 21 years following an appeal by Dzingiso challenging his sentence.
However, in his grounds of appeal through his lawyers Gundu and Dube Legal Practitioners, Dzingiso argued that the sentence imposed by the court a quo was excessive and induced a sense of shock.
He further asserted that the magistrate erred by failing to treat the five counts of rape as one for purposes of sentence.
They further argued that there was unnecessary splitting of charges by the lower court.