The former spouse of Zimbabwe’s vice-president has been freed from remand after seven years while on trial for his tried homicide.
Marry Mubaiwa was charged in 2019, after her then husband Gen Constantino Chiwenga accused her of making an attempt to impede his medical therapy in South Africa.
Ordering her release, a Justice of the Peace said Mubaiwa had suffered mental, bodily and financial prejudice during the trial, state-owned day by day the Herald said.
The ruling was made after the state requested for the trial to be postponed by a month in order to interact witnesses.
Her lawyer described the ruling as a victory that had come too late, because her consumer’s rights had been violated by the delay in the trial.
Speaking outside court in the capital Harare on Tuesday, the lawyer added that if the state moved for a new trial, they would deal with it when it occurred.
Mubaiwa was accused of making an attempt to kill Chiwenga, while he was in hospital in Pretoria. The vice-president then went to China for 4 months of therapy.
Mubaiwa was remanded in custody and denied bail.
According to the New Zimbabwe information web site, Mubaiwa celebrated her release outside court, and said justice had been achieved and that she was proud of her lawyer.
In 2017, Chiwenga performed a key position in overthrowing then President Robert Mugabe.
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