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Zimbabwe: Thief Jailed 20 Years

The Herald (Harare)

18 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008

Harare

A NORTON man was yesterday sentenced to 20 years in jail for breaking into 11 shops at Daventry House in Harare and stealing electrical gadgets worth more than $900 trillion.

Isaac Chiutsi (27) would go to Daventry House at night and access the second floor by climbing up a gutter before breaking into the shops and offices.

He pleaded guilty to unlawful entry and theft when he appeared before Harare regional magistrate Mr William Bhila.

Prosecutor Mr Godwin Takawira Nyasha established that the first incident occurred on March 26 when Chiutsi went to Daventry House in the company of Givemore Nyabvedzi, who is currently at large.

On arrival, the duo climbed up a gutter and broke into Maxman Freight Services' shop where they stole computers, a scanner, a laminating machine and accessories valued at $20 trillion at the time.

On April 13, the two broke into the same building and stole more computers, printers, cartridges and other property worth $104 trillion from Copy Well Cartridges on the first floor.

His luck ran out on July 7 this year when he was arrested in the corridors of the building while scouting for an office to break into.