Five robbers jailed for 10 years: Hacked Phalombe couple

February 1, 2015 Nyasa Times Reporter 42 Comments

The Phalombe First Grade Magistrate Court has convicted and sentenced five men to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour for robbery with violence.

The five convicts for the awful crime
The five convicts for the awful crime

Accoring to Sgt. Augustus Nkhwazi,  Police Public Relations Officer for Phalombe, the five were among the group of thugs that attacked the family of Mr Luka Mangani 31 years of Mankhanamba village T/A Kaduya in Phalombe.

The thugs were armed with panga knives when they attacked the victim on the night of 12th September 2014.

They hacked Mangani and his wife before they went away with money amounting to Mk825, 000.00 and a sports bicycle.

Appearing before the Phalombe First Grade Magistrate Court, they all denied the charges levelled against them.

However, the police prosecution team paraded four witnesses who testified against the five. The court found the five guilty of the offence  of robbery with violence.

Passing the sentence, First Grade Magistrate Felix Mandala noted that the offence committed by the five was a serious one.

He said they inflicted too much pain to the victim who was hacked and at the same time lost his money and property.

The Magistrate  noted that such acts by the accused pose threat to the people in Phalombe and the country at large. He therefore sentenced the five to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour for other would be offenders to learn.

The five are Mike Maxwell 29 of Mzizira village T/A Mthiramanja and Alick Chikopa 26 of Naliya village T/A Chikumbu in Mulanje, Bizwick Chizombwe 22 of Ngoniwa village T/A Nkalo and Masautso Kaipa 31 of Mulandani village T/A Mpama in Chiradzulu and Victor Maseya 25 of Mtambalika village T/A Njema in Mulanje.

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42 replies on “Five robbers jailed for 10 years: Hacked Phalombe couple”

  2. They will not serve the full 10yrs.They must just relax,serve about 6yrs and they will not be too old to go back and hack some more people.They should have gone forever

  4. What Lomwes knows best.Uprooting other people’s limbs because of money.Evil people.Get education please!!!!!!!!!!

  6. This journalist did not have adequate information about this case… how were these people identified as the suspects? thhe way this story is report is like the convicts were just picked from somehwere and told thhat they are guilty.

  8. Introducing the ID will b an answer to solve crime in Malawi as forensic investigation ,using finger prints and dna will b used in court as evidence . Iam sure one of the jailed men is innocent

  9. Koma apa ndiye chigamulo sichinayende bwino lo zachepa anthuwo achuluka mina zina awonjezela kusogoloku

  11. Anthuwa mukuwatumiza Ku gym kuti adzatikhapenso.

    Kodi a court mulibe firing staff, to shoot them immediately after judgment?

  14. more crimes were committed by jb as she stole money resulting in many deaths in hospitals and donor suspension and that is why she is now a fugitive from justice hiding in RSA.

    1. Iwe kaukonde mutu wako umagwira nkhani yambava JB chikumukhudza ndichiyani?Yankhula ngati munthu wanzeru,umati ife tisekerere zopusazo.Pangani mareasonable comments musationongere mbiri yaNyasa Times ayi.

  22. They will be among those forgiven the next three years on independent cerebration as long as they behave well in jail, you can see their faces no stress at all,that was 50/50 to kill or to be killed why charging them less? days are flying now ten years is just nothing think tank about your judgement in stuff, other wise you are creating tension to our community,see my name.

  23. heartless people,you steal and hack the victim. I will commit a crime so that I meet you there and deal with you once and for all.if I kill someone in jail is it a crime?

  24. Give them life sentence kukolola pomwe asanalime and kupeza ndalama asanakhetsele thukuta zimbalangondozi 10 yrs zachepa. Anthu asamagone chifukwa cha anthu oyipa ngati amenewa? Shupit

  25. Waist of time n money as the murderers will have to b fed now for ten years y don’t just hanv them to death an eye for an eye a murder for an murder

  26. This is the magistrate we want. Not the Judges who pass lenient sentences to thieves who stole millions of kwachas.

  27. Ten years basi????Kulimbikitsa umbavatu uku.We don’t need these beasts amongst human beings.Leave a mark on them

  32. Not in prison. Just throw them in shire river at least crockdiles can say thanks and stop attacking innocent malawians

  33. Many thanks to First Grade Magistrate Felix Mandala.Criminals are a menace to society so mwawapangitsa manyazi ma magistrate anzanu aziphuphu omwe akumalamula mbanda zoopsa ngati izi mochepa kwambiri komanso modabwitsa malingana ndi milandu yawo.Conglatulations and keep it up.

  35. We are all Lhomwes why then hacking our fellows?How do you then expect other tribes to respect us and our HE?

  37. Mbava zimenezi sizikanalekerapo kuba ayi. Taonani umphawi wakeo. Zovala zamunthu okuba 850 000 zimenezi? kaunjika wa K200 simukanakwanisa? koma kuba nkuthuzula masacheti. Rot in jail

  38. stealing less than k1m get 10 years in prison, but k65m for 3 years, k180m for 9years no truth at all.

  40. akalowe basi, anthu oipa !!! Malawi is now full of thieves, you hear about them almost each and every day.

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