A grandmother has given harrowing testimony at the High Court in Kasungu, describing the chain of events that led to the discovery of her granddaughter’s body in a bush – and her grandson being found abandoned nearby, but alive. Jane Harawa, 49, the mother of murder suspect Medium Nyirongo, was the first State witness called […]
The High Court sitting in Kasungu has granted the State’s request to amend the charge sheet against former Malawi Defence Force employee Medium Nyirongo, adding a charge of child desertion alongside the murder charge he already faced. Nyirongo, who had previously pleaded not guilty to murder, admitted before the court that he had left his […]
A Malawian man has been found guilty of murdering his wife after the High Court’s Criminal Division in Blantyre ruled that his alibi failed to account for the critical hours during which she is believed to have been killed. Lucius Wilson was convicted on Friday of the murder of his wife, Cecelia Yakob, whose body […]
Five people accused of murdering and robbing Chileka businessman Omar Mbeta have all pleaded not guilty, as the High Court in Blantyre ordered the State to urgently produce crucial outstanding evidence before the trial can properly get underway. The accused appeared before Justice Etness Chanza on Tuesday, 25 August 2026, for the commencement of proceedings, […]
Chilling new evidence has emerged in the murder trial of a Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) employee, after a court heard that the victim had expressed intentions to change her pension beneficiary just weeks before her death — changes she never lived to make. Pensions Administration Supervisor Yvone Jere told the High Court in […]
A legal commentator Justin Dzonzi has faulted the Malawi police for giving bail to a rearrested homicide suspect, Emanuel Sekanawo, a Rwadan national. In what can be a rare case, a Rwandan national who was given a court bail on homicide charges, and rearrested for being suspected to be conspiring to commit fellony has been […]
One of the many cases where refugees are answering to homicide charges resumed at the Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Court on Wednesday with the state parading four witnesses. However, there were ugly scenes after the case was adjourned as the suspects and the friends manhandled Times Group journalist Watipaso Mzungu who was taking pictures of […]
One of the many cases where refugees are answering to homicide charges has commenced at the Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Court. The case, in which two Burundian refugees Emmanuel Sekanao and Dezire Bintuari are answering to attempted grievous harm and wounding charges for allegedly shooting a businessperson Vincent Niyongira in Salima on July 10 last […]