MURDER SUSPECT PASTOR WANTS OUT OF HOUSE ARREST

MBABANE – “Ease my house arrest conditions as I am suffering from a toothache which is giving me sleepless nights.”

This is one of the requests made by murder suspect Pastor Themba Masimula, who is currently under house arrest. He now wants the court to flex his house arrest conditions for him to be able to see a dentist and also attend to some of his personal issues.
House arrest, also called house confinement, is a measure by which a person is confined by the court to a certain residence and his travel is restricted.
Masimula who is accused of killing his wife Funekile, was placed under house arrest by High Court Judge Sipho Nkosi.

He has since filed an urgent application in the High court where he is seeking an order varying his bail conditions pertaining to the house arrest.
The suspect, who is also a teacher and a pastor, further wants the court to grant him permission to travel to Nhlangano First National Bank (FNB) today and to Hlatikhulu Hospital tomorrow.
In his application he stated that in around October 2016, he was arrested by members of the Royal Swaziland Police and subsequently charged with murder. 

He pointed out that he was eventually granted bail and some of its conditions were that he should be kept under house arrest.
“I have been under house arrest since my release on bail and I am now desirous of attending to some personal errands which require that I travel to the nearest town, being Nhlangano,” submitted Masimula.
He pointed out that prior to his release on bail, an order was issued by Judge Nkosi that he should pay to her mother-in-law a sum of E3 000 for maintenance of his two children.
Masimula mentioned that he had been religiously paying the money until June 2017 when he received notification that his bank account with FNB had been frozen, pending the submissions of certain documents.

According to the suspect, he then requested one of his cousins to go and submit the documents on his behalf but was turned back at the bank and informed that they needed him (Masimula) to come to the bank personally.
He claimed that as result of the freezing of the account, he had been unable to send the money for maintenance to her mother-in-law.
Masimula further informed the court that he used to send the money around 23, 24 of each month. “Further, I am desirous of attending to a dentist to have two of my teeth extracted as they are giving me sleepless nights,” he argued.
He mentioned that the dentist he was desirous to see was based at Hlatikhulu Government Hospital.

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