“I am innocent, I did not kill him!”

*Zim man acquitted of murder after six years in jail

“I am sorry for the state for incriminating me for nothing. I am an innocent man. I did not kill that man. I was not even there when it happened!” exclaimed 33-year-old Thabani Mapunganyika as police officers ushered him into the back of their van parked outside Francistown High Court on Tuesday morning.

The Zimbabwean is being driven back to prison, his home for the last six years. It is his home no longer.

Minutes early, the father-of-three was acquitted of John Molefi Keletse’s murder, a former Biology teacher at Masunga Senior ...