HARARE – A Harare man whose vicious dogs killed a passerby last Saturday appeared in court on Tuesday charged with culpable homicide.
Mike Mupinga, 40, was remanded in custody to Friday after prosecutor Rufaro Chonzi said they would file reasons for objecting to bail on Wednesday. Defence lawyer Stephen Chikotora will then make the case for bail on Thursday before magistrate Marewanazvo Gofa makes a ruling on Friday.
The National Prosecuting Authority alleges that Mupinga owed four vicious dogs, on including three pitbulls and a rotteweiller.
On May 30, the prosecution charges, he negligently left his dogs unmuzzled at his rented house in New Bluffhill.
The National Prosecuting Authority charges: “The accused’s vicious dogs scaled over the short perimeter wall and met Samuel Machara who was walking along the nearby street.
“The dogs bit Machara all over the body.”
Machara suffered deep wounds on his neck, hands, legs and stomach leading to his death.
Mupinga’s white pitbull was found with blood stains when the police visited the scene.
Mupinga also has pending charges of vehicle theft, drug dealing and rape.
The four dogs were seized by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and put down.
