Former Bikita West legislator Munyaradzi Kereke has been sent back to prison after the Supreme Court yesterday confirmed his conviction.

Kereke will serve an effective 10-year jail term for raping a juvenile relative.

This comes as he has been roaming free since Aug 2021 when he was granted US$500 000 bail pending his appeal.

Kereke, a former advisor to ex-Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr Gideon Gono, was in July 2016 convicted of raping his then 10-year-old relative at gunpoint and jailed for 14 years.