President Robert Mugabe’s one time personal helicopter pilot has been sentenced to six months in prison after trying to remain illegally in the UK and using fraudulent identification documents.
The court heard that Matthew Mufiri, 35, spent 10 years flying Mugabe around Africa, before fleeing Zimbabwe on a visitor’s visa in 2004 and then attempted to claim his right to stay in Britain by offering immigration officials a fake birth certificate belonging to a woman who had died in an accident.
The woman – Kathleen Durkin – has been falsely cited as the mother of more than 70 applicants for British passports, to the distress of her family, Reading Crown Court was told.
Mufiri was sentenced to six months in prison.
However Judge Anthony King made no order for deportation. The only way for Mufiri to be deported would be if he volunteered to go, the court was told.
Mufiri admitted one charge of fraudulently claiming the right to stay in the UK and one count of possessing articles for use in the fraud.
The day Mugabe dies some of you people will have no more news. What has this fugitive got to do with our beloved leader now? Just after splashing fancy headlines because the name Mugabe makes news, especially when bashing him.Loosers
Well some times its good news to hear some one trying his best to get a better life after being used and abused then no life and tries to run over to the UK to make a good living for him self and the fool was caught only the Mugabe s know what they did to zimbabwe messed it all up most of its educated are over seas making good money with the education so called Mugabe gave us as people love to say any way we got our lives well over here in the UK USA have lovely cars homes and children have the best education people may say as they wish that we suffer out here in the diaspora we dont we have 3 to 4 lovely warm meals a day lights water fresh petrol and our children can go an see allot with out being asked by the youth brigade any thing we can say as we wish unless you are over here with out the right papers or with the wrong intention and try Mugabe’s tricks of thuggery over here then you will be on the deportation list very fast that if they send you home you will be going thugs robbers and those that love fraud are not welcome here stay there in Mugabe’s land rega vamwe va enjoy er too bad it dont work that way until Zimbabwe Rubbish Police gets back its power to be Zimbabwe Rep police to put away thugs and thieves in zimbabwe then it will take years for zimbabwe to be back on its tracks TIME will Tell . One day zivi chanaka chete mbava dzi cha sungwa chete let us have proper change for the real deal Morgan T the power house MDC hahahahahahahahahahahahah zvi chanaka chete hama ucha sura hama tavekutonga manjemnje .MDC dizo
There is nothing of intrest to share with .The guy is just human& there is no art to find the mind’s construction on the face .
Lock that pilot he was working for a thug, at least mugabe’s people know that these things can happen to them. The next to be arrested is Kasukuwure (sp) the minister from zanu who instigated the accident that resulted in the death of Mrs Tsvangirai. Watch this space when the investigations have been completed, the truth shall come out. abel if mugabe dies we will not run out of news, we will be excited coz the economy can be on track again. We don’t care of mugabe we want him out so that our lives can be normal again.
Ana Dembare munongoita nharo dzepadare. unoziva anonzi manewsmaker here iwe? Mugabe naHitler manews maker coz vakacheka vachena nerakagomara panyama nhete. iwe ndiwe wakukwatira zvivi zvake, sorry hako.
Honawo zvinofunga ****sters ako iwe unoti hee economy will improve:
http://www.globalpolitician.com/23487-zimbabwe
There are a lots of discrepencies on the figures you published.
1 – At 35 the guy has been in UK for 5 years that means he came when he was 30 years old.
2 – You said he flew Mugabe for 10 years that put his first flying age at 20
3 – For one to have the privilege to fly VIP one must have a min of 5 years as a pilot
4- If I’m to follow your figures with this knowledge the guy started flying at 15 years.
5 – Flying course is a min of 2 years plus 1 earlier year for military training so he started the course at 12 years.
6 – To qualify for a pilot training one must have ‘A’ level which one can only get after 13 years of primary and secondary education, that will tell me he started grade one the year he was born.
The truck that killed Susan Tsvangirai the wife of the Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in a road crash is owned by Saviour Kasukuwere, a former spy agent in the CIO and Youth and Gender Development Minister in the inclusive government, a South African newspaper The Sunday Sun revealed. “Tyson” as he is popularly known, has worked as Robert Mugabe’s body guard. Kasukuwere was one of the first government officials to visit the Prime Minister in hospital at the Avenues Clinic in Harare.
The amazing coincidence of his truck’s involvement was revealed in Harare by a private investigator probing the tragic accident that took the life of the Prime Minister’s wife Susan.
Kasukuwere has worked in the Zimbabwean government’s Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)’s close Security Unit, a crack department in the spy organisation which reports directly to the President. Its role is to spy on CIO agents and government officials, including Zanu(PF) politicians.
The notorious Mt Darwin MP has a menacing body and menacing looks and a close confidante of the President alongside the Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and he is normally tasked to carry out ruthless missions on behalf of Robert Mugabe.
Sources say Kasukuwere gained the favour of Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa when he worked for (Central Mechanical Equipment Department (CMED) as a driver and spy agent monitoring the movement and servicing of government officials’ vehicles.
Over the years, Kasukuwere has become obsessed with eliminating Zanu(PF) rivals in Mashonaland Central to secure his position as the unchallenged political baron in that province.
It is believed that Kasukuwere drove out Mashonaland Central businessman James Makamba into exile and General Solomon Mujuru who had vast farming interests in the region was sent packing back to his native Chivu.
Tyson is also linked to the death of the province’s budding young Zanu(PF) politicians Border Gezi, Elliot Manyika and the recent arrest of former Guruwe MP David Butau on his return from exile in the UK. Butau, like James Makamba was Solomon Mujuru’s business front man.
In 2005 he spied on Phillip Chiyangwa, Tendai Matambanadzo, a banker, and Itai Marchi Zanu-PF director of Security, and long-serving Zimbabwe diplomat Godfrey Dzvairo and they were convicted of breaching the Official Secrets Act and given sentences ranging between five to six years in jail on accusations that they sold information to South African Intelligence.
Kasukuwere is also linked to the attempted murder of MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa two years ago.
In the disputed violent Presidential elections run-off, he directed political assasinations, abductions and torture in Mashonaland Central and engineered attacks on US embassy vehicles.
During his time as a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operative in Manicaland in the Nineties, he was nicknamed “Mike Tyson” because of his ruthlessness and
Did you Know ???
That there are thousands of those Mugabe runaways who have sought refuge in Western countries which their Master has always accused of ‘regime change”???. That there are three fellows who addressed a forced Pre-Election Civil Servants Gathering hastily arranged in Gwanda towards Election 2002 known by their pseudonyms of “Ray Chirisa” under the headship of a ZNA Col and Chief Propagandist (aka) Munemo and ZANU-PF’s aMaiChinomona of ZANU-PF Commisariat (liberation war pseudonyms, I think) spreading really distorted anti-western venom of high toxicity.I am very well informed those poor propagandists all escaped to the UK and other Western states and not to China to seek ‘100% Empowerment/Brutality’ that their ZANU-PF party used as its 2008 Election Propaganda. They wouldn’t dream about that in their Zanufied Zimbabwe.
Life is about the tummy man—-forgive that poor pilot mate.He is lucky that he is in a UK jail where he is eating chicken and rice, has three meals a day and medical treatment and not in Paradzai Zimondi’s Mutare Remand or Chikurubi Prison man. He is only human after-all.
I agree with Tembo.For your own infor Mr Editor,the young man did not even fly the president.He was a very junior officer in the AFZ when he resigned.He flew the ALOETTE III helicopters only!So please musanyepere vanhu!!
If indeed he was , then why was he not on the sanctions list? These british are abusing our people to meet their agenda. asylum seekers have been used as pawns in this mad game. some are out there helpless with no rights to work and no food.yet they have been encouraged to go to britain and help to paint a bad picture of zimbabwe and mugabe.soon you will all be discarded and this so called mugabe pilot will be given a plush flat and compensated for his human rights violations..remember that other lady who lives in a plush house and yet we were told she used to work for mugabe etc..double standards.
guys politics is a dirty game. now the mdc are chilling in gvt -mercs etc while you struggle to make a sandwich. very soon you will all be irrelevant to chamisa -infact you become a hindrance to his wealth generation.why should he be bothered about you? mdc are no longer in opposition and yet their supporters still behave as if …you are now a part of the gvt. you can call mugabe all sorts of names but he is now your president with morgans permission too.nyika yachinja and you must change with it or you will be left behind.the same applies to the media, the days of amazing junta headlines are long gone.mugabe no longer makes the main headlines so you have to use your knowledge of journalism to come out with some tasty news…no more time for garbage and lies about zanu pf.its time for the mdc to deliver on their promises and that is what the media should be focusing on.
let the pilot have his cake-why did the immigration authorities allow him in the country if he had been a mugabe ally? to get information? what if the guy is now a operative of the cio gathering data? the possibilities are endless.
scarface idiot let our mdc ride on the mercs as well we don’t have a problem with that they derseve that. We know their role in government to rectify the corruption done by zanu. scarface whether you like it or not tapinda and we are going to rule the country soon.
TEMBO you are telling the truth can everyone please read what TEMBO said on comment number 7 this editor should stop posting lies on this website
I always laugh when i read some comments from idiotic supporters of that ruinous mdc like dynamos..let me qoute him , he says ” scarface whether you like it or not ,tapinda…” .I recall this is the same dynamos who vowed and sweared that they will never enter inclusive gvt just over a month ago…mapinda muchida musingade!!.mwedzi watopfuura mapinda…He now understands the statement that goes, ‘ if you can’t beat them, join them.! ‘. In case dynamos doesn’t know that mdc leaders now attend national events and they will be giving our heroic president Mugabe a loud round of applause and standing ovation on 18 april independence day…