15 years in prison for having a short sex round with a prostitute.

A MAN from Hwange will live to rue the day he had sex with a hooker after the woman filed for rape when he, allegedly, failed to pay the $5 she charged for her services.

 

Hillary Moyo, 20 from Simangani area Hwange, was on Tuesday jailed for 15 years, with three suspended for five years on conditions.

 

Moyo initially denied the charges telling the court the woman, identity protected by the courts, fabricated charges to fix him for failing to pay for sex.

 

"She consented to sex but I failed to pay $5 she had charged for her services which is why she is claiming I raped her," said Moyo.

 

Asked why he committed the offence in mitigation, Moyo said he was too drunk on the day to remember what he did.

 

Hwange regional magistrate Dambudzo Malunga convicted him.

 

The woman from Number 2 in the coal mining town, told the court that she was too drunk and did not realise she had been raped until the next morning.

 

Prosecuting, Bheki Tshabalala, said the woman was in the company of another hooker when the sex ordeal took place in a haulage truck wreckage at the Hwange Truck Stop.

 

"On November 2, this year, Moyo was at Truckers Inn drinking beer with two women - the victim and another called Faustina Tshuma. At midnight the victim and her friend who were excessively drunk decided to take a nap in a nearby wreck of a haulage truck," said the prosecutor.

 

Court heard that Moyo left the two women sleeping in the wreckage as he went back to drink.

 

Moyo later returned to the wreck and sneaked inside where he had sex with the woman once without her consent.

 

"She discovered she had been raped in the morning when she woke up at 4AM. She noticed that her pair of jeans was unzipped with buttons open and some semen on her thighs while Moyo was sleeping next to her. Tshuma (her friend) was not in the wreck," added prosecutor Tshabalala.

 

Court heard that the woman asked Moyo whether he had sex with her and he admitted resulting in her reporting to the police.

 

The woman also reported a case of theft against, Moyo accusing him of stealing her phone worth $70 but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence.