A farmer's wife is facing prosecution in Zimbabwe for staying on her own property.

Charles Locker was cleared of the same charges so the attention has shifted to his wife.

It is not often that white farmer's wives make the news in Zimbabwe but reports said the Attorney General's office wants to charge Ellen Lock for staying on her husband's farm.

Her husband said he had court orders allowing him to stay on Karori Farm, in eastern Zimbabwe.

He also has letters backing him up from the country's two vice presidents but an army brigadier insists the farm is his and he too appears to have support in high places.

Farming officials said the accusations were unbelievable.

They said even in a murder case you could not just charge the wife of a suspect with the crime if you could not make the charges stick against her husband.

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