Social media users were yesterday shocked and distressed after pictures of ailing former top model — Marry Mubaiwa — hit the internet following her appearance at the Harare Magistrate’s Courts.
Marry, the estranged wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, is being charged with attempted murder and externalizing foreign currency.
Her ill-health has become the talking point as she is struggling with wounds on both her arms.
The once tall and slender beauty was brought to court in an ambulance, carried into the building on a stretcher and then pushed into the courtroom on a wheelchair while on an intravenous injection.
She had been issued a warrant of arrest for failing to attend a court remand hearing.
After her dramatic appearance in the afternoon before another magistrate, the warrant of arrest was cancelled.
Mubaiwa is accused of attempting to kill VP Constantino Chiwenga when he was admitted in hospital in South Africa and externalising foreign currency.
In the morning session, her lawyer Ms Beatrice Mtetwa explained her client’s absence: “She is not feeling well and she is at her house. She cannot come to court.”
The State, led by Mrs Netsai Mushayabasa, applied for the warrant of arrest.
Ms Mtetwa then applied to be allowed to hire an ambulance to ferry Mubaiwa to court and returned with her in an ambulance at around 2pm.
Mrs Mushayabasa then suggested that the matter involving attempted murder and money laundering be postponed to 28 January next year since investigations were still underway.
“There are extra-terrestrial investigations that have to be made and this is difficult in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic,” she said.
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