A man from Magwegwe surbub stole his wife’s used underwear and donated them to his girlfriend, he regarded as more attractive, a Bulawayo magistrate has ruled.
The magistrate in response ruled that the man rightly provoked his wife to beat him up.
His wife appeared before the Bulawayo Magistrate’s court facing charges of assault but was set free after the magistrate ruled that she was provoked.
Shelter Magorogoye beat her husband Njabulo Mloyi repeatedly after discovering that  he was stealing her knickers and giving them to his girlfriend.
Prosecutor Mufaro Mageza told the court that on an unspecified date in February Magorogoye noticed that her knickers have disappeared from her drawer and thought her husband was the suspect.
She then set a trap by buying more knickers and leaving them in the same place. Mloyi saw the new  knickers and took them with an intention to give them to his girlfriend as usual.
As he did this ,his wife saw him and and she struck him with an empty bottle of beer on the face and then  went on hit him several times.
Mloyi took some property from their  matrimonial home  a few days after he was beaten  and went to live with his girlfriend.
Magorogoye said,  “This time I realised he had been giving his girlfriend my panties pretending to have bought them for her,”
Provincial magistrate Willard Mafios Moyo from Western Commonage  said it was clear Mloyi had provoked his wife.
“Such actions show carelessness and immaturity,”  said Moyo before setting Magorongoye free.
Mloyi was ordered  to return the property he took from the matrimonial home.
His wife, Magorongoye was told to report her husband to the police if he does not return the property.
Magorogoye had pleaded guilty to the assault charges, but said her husband had provoked her.
She told the court that she discovered that her husband was having an extramarital affair and she had  approached and warned the woman against dating her husband Mloyi.
But the affair never ended as the two continued seeing each other until her knickers started to disappear misteriously from their home.
This forced  her to set  a trap and caught her husband ,then discovered  he was stealing  her knickers to please his girlfriend.