A BINGA man has been sentenced to five years in prison for a horrific attack on his mother after accusing her of making him lose his manhood through practicing witchcraft.
Relick Muleya, 27, violently attacked his mother on December 2 last year, battering her with a log twice on her back and once in the head.
The badly injured woman was lucky to survive after being rushed to Binga hospital where she received 12 stitches on the head after sustaining a skull fracture.
A report was then made to the police leading to Muleya’s arrest.
The Binga magistrate’s court heard that the horror attack followed a heated argument between the pair with Muleya accusing his mother of causing him untold misery through her witchcraft practices.
Asked by magistrate Stephen Ndlovu what proof he had that his mother was a witch, Muleya said he had consulted a local inyanga who told him his mother was bewitching him.
He also stunned the court by claiming that his mother had taken away his manhood through her alleged sorcery.
However, the magistrate blasted Muleya telling him it was unAfrican and taboo under local customs for a person to assault their own mother.
He then slapped him with a five-year sentence insisting a prison term was needed to curb violent attacks, many of them fatal, which he said were now on the increase.