Medical report holds up Vermeulen trial

Medical report holds up Vermeulen trial

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By Nkanyiso Moyo

THE trial of former Zimbabwe Test cricketer Mark Vermeulen has been postponed for a second time.

The player’s trial should have resumed at the Magistrates’ Court in Harare on Tuesday but has been put back to May 7, to allow doctors to complete a report into the player’s mental state.

One of the two medicals from government-appointed experts to examine Vermeulen's mental status had not been concluded when trial was scheduled to start.

Vermeulen is being tried for arson after he allegedly set fire to the Zimbabwe Cricket Academy building and part of the ZC boardroom last year. The fire destroyed property and training equipment worth several millions of Zimbabwean dollars.

In the interim, Vermeulen has made a promising return to club cricket turning out for Old Hararians in the local leagues thanks to the relaxed bail conditions afforded to him by the courts.

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