NINETEEN Zanu PF farm invaders at Chishaku Farm in Mvuma were last Friday convicted of armed robbery, housebreaking and theft and sentenced to effective jail terms ranging from one to three years. Shadreck Thomas, who led the invasions on Andrea Scheepers’ farm in November last year, was convicted of five counts involving public violence and sentenced to an effective three-year jail term while others were jailed for one year for housebreaking and theft. Initially, the group, comprised 27 farm invaders, but five of them were acquitted for lack of evidence, while the sixth was freed because he was a juvenile, who the court described as having been driven by mob psychology. – Daily News
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