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Police quit Zimbabwean farmer from home for British doctor

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Hard-working Zimbabwe farmer Phillip Rankin has been sent packing from his farm after claims by a British doctor that the disputed expansive farmland is his.

Reports say Rankin was summarily frogmarched from the farm when police stormed his homestead placing him in handcuffs while also removing his belongings from the farm to enforce the land claim by Dr Sylvester Nyatsuro.

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Rankin said police dug their way under the fence around his homestead and banged on the side door saying that they would force their way in if he did not open the door.

He said he eventually let the police in and they proceeded to take all his furniture outside the house and loaded it on to trucks.

Rankin said he was also handcuffed and forcibly removed from his farm by police who stormed the property to enforce the claim made by the British doctor.

Rankin was later released and reports say he is now staying with his relatives on a nearby farm. Speaking to the Telegraph after the incident Ranking said he was “terribly shocked”.

His lawyer said the police had no arrest warrant and told her “leave us” when the officers were informed that their actions were unlawful.

Dr. Nyatsuro, a Briton from Nottingham GP, who was born in Zimbabwe but now has British citizenship had initially warned Rankin to vacate the tobacco farmland last September following his claim of ownership but Rankin did not heed his warning.

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