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Wife of Zimbabwe’s vice-president charged with attempting to kill him
- Marry Chiwenga is accused of trying to kill her husband by denying him medical treatment and later removing an intravenous drip and a catheter
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The wife of Zimbabwe’s vice-president has been charged with attempting to kill her husband.
Marry Chiwenga, a former model and wife of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court on Monday where she was also charged with money laundering and fraud.
Wearing a floral dress, she waved to journalists as she entered the court’s holding cells. The magistrate ordered that she remain in custody pending a bail hearing.
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She is accused of trying to kill her husband in South Africa in July. First, she tried to deny medical treatment to Chiwenga by insisting he stay at a hotel instead of a hospital when he was flown to South Africa for emergency medical treatment, according to the charge sheet.
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While Chiwenga was in hospital on July 8, she went to his room, asked security to leave and, while alone with him, removed an intravenous drip and a catheter, causing him to bleed profusely, according to the charge sheet. She then forced him off the bed and tried to bring him out of the ward before being intercepted by his security detail, the charges said.
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