A man has been charged with contempt of court after he pulled down his trousers while giving evidence.
Loveness Mutezo, aged 40, was seeking an order of protection against her husband, Jeffrey Chemutsanga, 45, for persistent drunken abuse. Chemutsanga, however, was keen to counter with evidence of his wife’s shortcomings. While making his submissions, he became overcome with emotion and dropped his trousers to expose his dirty boxer shorts as proof Mutezo did not do his laundry.
This followed Chemutsanga’s impassioned claim that his wife was also guilty of a kind of abuse when he asserted: “Your Worship, I was also on my way to make a claim against her because she abuses me by denying me my conjugal rights.”
Mutezo defended herself, saying: “Your Worship I don’t deny him, it’s only when I am menstruating. He does not understand that it’s nature. He asks me about menstruation issues in front of [the] kids.”
However, it was Chemutsanga’s trouser-dropping that proved the last straw for magistrate Langton Mukwengi, who ordered the defendant’s immediate arrest; but not before finding in favour of Mutezo.
Handing down his ruling Mr Mukwengi said: “I grant the protection order to your wife because you are a bad example to your children (…) If you are not satisfied with the ruling make an application at your own time.”
