MASVINGO High Court judge Garainesu Mawadze’s son, Munyaradzi Mawadze, facing murder charges, was Saturday granted $3 000 bail by a Harare High Court.
Munyaradzi and two other accused persons, Elvin Saungweme and Dellon Balani are alleged to have killed a Harare cell phone dealer, Sipho Ncube by stabbing him with a knife and ripping open his throat in March this year.
The State resisted the granting of bail arguing he faced serious charges.
Prosecutors argued Munyaradzi, if convicted, faced a lengthy sentence, and as a result, was likely to abscond trial.
However, Justice Webster Chinamora said the fact that Munyaradzi’s co-accused were granted bail by the same court, it would be remiss of him not to explore the law on the treatment of people in similar circumstances.
