{"id":215223,"date":"2025-11-29T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-prosecutor-jailed-for-altering-facts-in-girls-rape-case\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:34:50","slug":"zimbabwe-prosecutor-jailed-for-altering-facts-in-girls-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-prosecutor-jailed-for-altering-facts-in-girls-rape-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Prosecutor Jailed for Altering Facts in Girl&#8217;s Rape Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">A regional public prosecutor in Chipinge has been jailed for defeating the course of justice after he altered key facts in a rape case involving a 13-year-old girl and her uncle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Timothy Katsande (34) was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Mutare Provincial Magistrate Anne Ndiraya after a court found he drafted a false statement that misrepresented the circumstances of the crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The court heard that the girl was raped by her 30-year-old uncle in Chipinge on 28 December 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511280033.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A regional public prosecutor in Chipinge has been jailed for defeating the course of justice after he altered key facts in a rape case involving a 13-year-old girl and her uncle. Timothy Katsande (34) was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Mutare Provincial Magistrate Anne Ndiraya after a court found he drafted a false [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,26109,6683,15730,7010,5696,257,8084,305,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-215223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-altering","tag-case","tag-facts","tag-girls","tag-jailed","tag-news","tag-prosecutor","tag-rape","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}