Zim Now Writer
Marry Mubaiwa’s, lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, on Thursday revealed that her client is unable to continue her court proceedings as she has undergone her second operation.
The operation comes some seven months after her right forearm was amputated as a way of dealing with lympoedema, a condition that left her arms and legs badly swollen.
Mtetwa said Mubaiwa was not going to “be able to fully comprehend the proceedings in her state.”
Trial was then moved to June 13 to allow her to recover.
On some occasions, Mubaiwa has been brought to court in an ambulance.
In February this year, her trial was once postponed after she started throwing up in the dock.
The former model has been unable to follow proceedings as she would sometimes dose off in the dock during her marathon trial on different charges.
Mubaiwa is accused of trying to kill V.P Chiwenga when the former military boss was battling for life at a South African hospital back in 2019.
It is alleged that Mubaiwa forced Chiwenga’s security to leave his hospital room so she could find space to remove some life support devices which were connected on him.
Chiwenga, it is further alleged, began to bleed profusely and his condition immediately deteriorated.
Mubaiwa allegedly forced Chiwenga out of bed intending to take him out of the hospital but was stopped by some hospital staff.
It is alleged Mubaiwa then disappeared from the hospital.
Chiwenga was later flown to China where he went through what was seen as a successful treatment.
Four witnesses are lined up to testify against Mubaiwa.
Two have finished testifying while the third witness is still expected in the stand.
Chiwenga is one of the four witnesses lined up to testify.
The State has also sent a request for mutual legal assistance from South Africa.
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