A 22-YEAR-OLD sex worker from Plumtree stole money from her client with the assistance of her 26-year-old boyfriend who stays with her. The woman met the 42-year-old man and she took him to her house as her lover had arranged to sleep at a friend’s house to make space for his girlfriend and her client. Nontobeko Maseko of Dingumuzi area and Mncedisi Ncube, were convicted of theft charges when they appeared before Plumtree magistrate Mr Livard Philemon. Maseko was sentenced to three months imprisonment which was wholly suspended on condition that she performs 105 hours of community service at Plumtree magistrate’s court. Ncube was sentenced to three months imprisonment.
The court heard that Maseko was at her house in Plumtree with her client, Mandla Sibanda, who is from Silobela area in Kwekwe. She strategically placed his trousers which had money by an open window and alerted her boyfriend who arrived in the middle of the night and stole the money.
Sibanda had alleged that the pair had stolen $1 407 from his trousers but they admitted to having stolen $80. Prosecuting, Ms Jane Phiri said Maseko met Sibanda at a nightclub in Plumtree on 15 March and offered him services at a fee and they proceeded to her home where they agreed that he would spend the night.
“At around 3am Maseko was with the complainant at her place of residence who had come to have sexual intercourse with her for the night. Maseko noticed that her client had some money in his pocket and she called her boyfriend telling him that she was going to place a pair of trousers which had some cash near the window,” said Ms Phiri.
She said Maseko then placed the trousers by the window and left the window open.
Ndlovu then arrived while Maseko and her client were asleep and he took cash amounting to $80 from the trousers and left unnoticed.
Ms Phiri said on the following morning as he was leaving, Sibanda discovered that his money was missing and inquired with Maseko who denied having taken the money.
She said Sibanda became suspicious and reported the matter to the police who investigated the matter and arrested Maseko and her boyfriend after a tip-off.
Maseko told the court that her boyfriend was the one who had advised her to steal from her client.
“I apologise for the offence that I committed but I was acting under the influence of my boyfriend. He is the one who told me that I had to search my client’s clothes in order to get money,” she said. sunday news
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