The former model accused of trying to kill Zimbabwe\u2019s vice-president faked the marriage documents that would have formalised their eight-year relationship, a court has ruled.<\/p>\n
Marry Mubaiwa, 40, once moved among the cream of Zimbabwean society, first married to an international footballer who she left for then-army chief Constantino Chiwenga.<\/p>\n
Her star kept rising after Chiwenga orchestrated the 2017 coup against Robert Mugabe, landing him the vice-presidency as his ally Emmerson Mnangagwa took power.<\/p>\n
But then money laundering, fraud and murder charges derailed her ambitions. A lymphatic disease meanwhile ravaged her body so badly that doctors are planning to amputate her forearm.<\/p>\n
Mubaiwa and Chiwenga were wed under customary law, including a traditional offering of cattle to her family.<\/p>\n
The relationship turned sour and Mubaiwa was charged with trying to kill him in 2019, by disconnecting his life support while he was in hospital.<\/p>\n
Around that time, she also forged his signature on documents that would have formalised their wedding as a civil marriage, which grants more rights to women in the event of a divorce, the court ruled Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe accused made a false statement \u2026 that there was consent from Chiwenga yet there was none,\u201d the ruling read.<\/p>\n
Due to her illness, Mubaiwa avoided a prison sentence and received a fine of Z$60,000 (\u00a3140).<\/p>\n
Mubaiwa accuses Chiwenga of blocking her efforts to seek treatment abroad despite the ill-equipped Zimbabwean hospital system having no specialists to treat her condition.<\/p>\n
Her attempted murder case, as well as a $1m (\u00a3770,000) money laundering case, are still pending.<\/p>\n
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