Criminally, Thabo and Martin should open a case for cyberbullying and unlawful detention and assault against Chidawa. For their civil rights infringement they can also pursue defamation damages from Chidawa - Lawyer
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“The report must have been made voluntarily and at the earliest opportunity and it’s this court’s view that the report wasn’t a genuine disclosure of a sexual complaint, it was to save her already crumbling marriage or arose after failing to extort money from the two through a suspicious private investigator Tafadzwa Chidawa.
“The State’s story was incomplete without Chidawa and his failure to surrender the two upon the purported arrest was suspicious and was indicative of an extortion attempt.
“In giving a description of the of the lodge she said it was quiet, trying to prove why she didn’t scream for help, but this was contradicted by the video footage which was produced and showed that it was full with other clients and workers who were going about their business and would have assisted her if she had shouted for help.
“This was a deliberate attempt to dramatise the events when, in actual fact, she was an active consenting participant who engaged in s
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