Province: Zimbabwe
Holden: Bulawayo
In the matter of……………………………………………………..Football V Christian Epoupa Ntouba
OFFENCE: CONTRAVENING OF SECTION 5 (3) (a) – AS SECTION OF THE FOOTBALL ETIQUETTE ACT CHAPTER (5:16) (SCORING FROM AN OFFSIDE POSITION)
AND SECTION 5 (6) (c) – AS SECTION OF THE FOOTBALL ETIQUETTE ACT CHAPTER (5:22) (ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO CAUSE GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM)
OUTLINE OF THE STATE CASE
-The accused is a Cameroonian adult male playing for Dynamos Football Club in Harare. He is aged 24 and has no respect for football.
-The complainants are the owners of the game of football, the supporters, residing in Zimbabwe.
-The accused is footballer and the complainants pay their hard earned money to watch the accused and his colleagues play the beautiful game of football.
-On the 14th day of May, 2017 the accused and the complainant were at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo. The accused was playing for Harare side Dynamos against Highlanders in a Premier Soccer League encounter. In the 40th minute the accused contrived to score a goal from an offside position causing the abandonment of the fixture after the complainant refused to accept the validity of the “goal”.
-On the 10th day of September, 2017 the accused and the complainant were at Rufaro Stadium in Harare. The accused was playing for Harare side Dynamos against Highlanders in a Premier Soccer League encounter. In the 87th minute the accused physically assaulted Highlanders player Peter Muduhwa by head butting him on the left cheek.
-The accused had no lawful right to act violently towards Muduhwa or to score from an offside position.
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CONVICTED OF: CONTRAVENING OF SECTION 5 (3) (a) – AS SECTION OF THE FOOTBALL ETIQUETTE ACT CHAPTER (5:16) (SCORING FROM AN OFFSIDE POSITION)
AND SECTION 5 (6) (c) – AS SECTION OF THE FOOTBALL ETIQUETTE ACT CHAPTER (5:22) (ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO CAUSE GRIVOUS BODILY HARM)
Sentenced on 17th ……….day of September 2017………………………………
Sentence: Apology to Zimbabwean football lovers. In default, a summary judgment of deportation back to Cameroon will be enforced.
King Kanka, Senior Magistrate
I CERTIFY the above to be a record of the proceedings in the above case tried before me.
Date: 17 September, 2017
AND further that the prisoner was on the said date informed that the proceedings would be sent for review the Court of Sport within one week