BITI IN EIGHTH BID TO HALT TRIAL

MDC Alliance vice president Tendai Biti has approached the High Court to stop his trial at the Magistrates Court where he is accused of verbally assaulting a Russian national, Tatiana Aleshina. Biti, through his lawyer Aleck Muchadehama filed an application to quash indictment in terms of section 178 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act, as well as recusal of the magistrate Vongai