PW2 testified that he is a pastor at Assemblies of God Church and that he knew
the appellant before the incident and was able to identify him as somebody he
stayed with in Mtandile.
On 15 January 2008 around 9.00 pm he asked his 4th born daughter to go to the
house of the appellant to help him unblock his phone. But before his daughter
came back his neighbor, Mrs. Mbavala, PW4, arrived and asked him to go and
witness what was taking place behind his house. He went there and found
another lady with his daughter Martha. PW4 narrated how she found Martha and
the appellant in the bathroom and that the appellant had fled and as they were
discussing the issue Martha also fled. PW2 sent someone to call the appellant
and when appellant came, PW2 asked appellant what he was doing in the
bathroom with Martha. Appellant did not answer the question directly but
instead asked who told him about it. He went back to his house and Martha also
arrived and she explained that on the night in question PW4’s arrival frustrated
appellant’s plan to have sex with her but that on previous occasions he had sex
with her but that she had failed to report to her father because he had threatened
her not to tell her father or else he would kill her, and that he used to give her
K50.00 to keep her quiet. The appellant’s house is about 100 meters from PW2’s
house.
The matter was reported to the village headman then to police and the appellant
was arrested. Since it was late at night police decided to take Martha to hospital
the following day. After medical examination it was confirmed that Martha had
on several occasions had sex and that she had contracted some sexually
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