Harare provincial magistrate Ms Apolonia Marutya has deferred to tomorrow ruling in the bail application for Elizabeth Parerenyatwa Mucheche who is facing allegations of threatening to kill a complainant in her perjury case.
Mucheche is facing charges of perjury and threats to kill.
Ms Marutya who was standing in for her brother magistrate Mr Dennis Mangosi said she was yet to receive the record from him.
During bail hearing on Tuesday told the court that Mucheche is not a proper candidate for bail as she resisted arrest on the day she was arrested.
Detective Inspector Evidence Hanya said on the day they arrested Elizabeth Parerenyatwa Mucheche he had invited her to Highlands Police Station and she lied that6 she was out of the country.
The detective said he only came to know of Mucheche’s whereabouts following a tip off which revealed that she was at CID Commercial Crimes Division in Harare.
” When we approached her and told her to accompany us to Highlands police she resisted, and I had to instruct a female officer to arrest her but she was overpowered by her “he said.
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He added that they managed to escort her to the police station with the help of members of the public as she was resisting arrest.
“She is likely to interfere with witnesses if granted bail as she committed the offence of threats of violence after the complainant had reported her for perjury.
He said she is likely to interfere with witnesses, as they are still gathering evidence at the Master of High Court where she handed over a fake power of attorney.
The detective said Mucheche submitted a fake power of attorney to the Master of High Court ,which was supposed to be signed by Ms Anne Rhodes.
“The spellings on the names on that power of attorney are wrong” he said.
He also added that the death certificate shows that Ms Rhodes died way before the power of attorney was signed.
However the defence said his client was a proper candidate for bail as she is a person of fixed aboard.
The defence also said there is no evidence to prove that his client was evasive.
Allegations are that in October 2022 at 5 Woodbridge Close, Glen Lorne, Harare, Mucheche, who is not related to the late Brian James Rhodes or legally appointed as an executor of his estate, generated a fake power of attorney document.
On the second count of threatening to kill Brian Murphy, who is the complainant, the court heard that in July this year at the same address of 5 Woodbridge Close, Mucheche met Murphy and threatened to kill him after he had reported a case of perjury against her at ZRP Highlands.
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