City woman under fire over rape allegations

Harare – A female Harare socialite (name withheld) has received a barrage of criticism on social media for allegedly making trumped up rape allegations against a United Kingdom based Zimbabwean national.

The 24-year old woman who is into clothing and liqour business, alleges that the UK based man whom she only identified as Ian ‘Boss Yanso’ Darlington took her for a night out and the couple slept over at a local hotel where she alleges the rape occured.

In her narration which is pregnant with a lot of ‘holes’, she alleges that she only discovered about the ‘rape’ when she got home after having breakfast with Boss Yanso at a local restaurant.

“In the morning I gave him my t-shirt from the ones I sell and we had breakfast at Nandos before he dropped me home,” narrated the young lady as she registered her complaint on popular socialite Jackie Ngarande’s Facebook page.

According to the woman , circumstances are that on May 21 at around 15.30 she got a call from a friend who asked her if they could go out and she consented.

Her friend came in the company of Boss Yanso and the trio went out for drinks and clicked to the extent that she let her friend go home as she enjoyed Boss Yanso’s company.

“We went to Jam Tree and had two cocktails and he started complaining that he wanted something stronger.

” At 19.30 we went to Pablos and he bought us a bottle of Bellaire and we proceeded to Evitro and he bought another bottle and my friend wasn’t drinking anymore and she left and I said I still wanted to hang out, ” she said in her narration.

She said they put up at a local hotel and she was sloshed and when she got home she experienced pains when she was bathing and suspected that she was raped , an allegation that Boss Yanso vehemently dismissed when she called him.

The matter was met with mixed feelings on social media with the majority of users taking the allegations with a pinch of salt due to what they deemed massive inconsistencies in her narration.

” There are lot of holes in that lady ‘s narration.

” For starters, how can she refused to go home when her friend who had introduced her to this guy asked them to go.

“It explains two things, either she is a party animal or she was could not resist this guy’s company and hospitality to the extent of leaving her son at home.

“It also boggles the mind why she did not discover the said rape and actually enjoyed breakfast with this guy.

“Well, I was not present but I’m only making logical assumptions,” said Anisha Bhunu as she commented on Facebook

” _Waisara naye uri sani,maiendepi, ita makadanama ukarasiswa ,hazvisi kunzwisisika izvi,”_ wrote one Itai Mutyoramwendo.

“I hope _haisi nyaya yekunyepa vasikana mazuvano vane_ system _yekuti vakasapihwa Mari yavarikuda vakuti rape setwunjapisi twuya twaMagaya,”_ wrote one Taremeredzwa Mwakutuya

” _Haa_ girls _dzetonaz_ _ndoskiri ravo_ ,recently Boss Torro fell prey to the same con and they seek sympathy on social media.

” The law must be revisited because this is pure abuse of men.

“Rape must not be tolerated but some women about town are abusing the law,” wrote Chigadiya Mazura.

Yanso has since instructed his lawyers through the police, to preserve video footage from Jamtree, Pablos,Holiday Inn and Evitro .Further instructions are to a
seek authority to retrieve messages exchanged between the two.

His lawyer Munyaradzi Bwanya from Jiti Law Chambers confirmed receiving the instructions and has since written to the police and awaiting response.

Bwanya appealed to the police to “preserve CCTV footage from Jam Tree, Pabloz, Evitro and the Holiday Inn where our client was in the company of the complainant on the night in question.”

The lawyer also demanded that the police warn the complainant “not to delete or destroy the whatsapp communications between her and our client and all her communications with one Nyaradzo Muvavarirwa”

“These communications will have the effect of proving our client’s innocence and that complainant tried to extort cash from him”

Efforts to get comment from national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi hit a snag as his mobile phone was not reachable at the time of writing.