A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for manslaughter, after fatally stabbing a woman with a sharp arrow when she stepped in to defend her friend during a violent confrontation. The High Court, sitting in Chiradzulu District, handed down the sentence to Mtchona Gonjo Macheso following a plea agreement that saw […]
Three Mzuzu based Cops have two days starting Tuesday, 21st October, 2014 to 22nd to convince the High Court that it erred in law to find them with a case to answer in connection with the brutal death of a suspect at Mzuzu Police Station two years ago. The Court found Constable George Kamphe, Constable Victor Msoloma […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has ordered that the trial for the three Mzuzu based Cops who are accused of having a hand in the death of a suspect be held with 21 days from February 27, 2014. The suspect Edison Msiska, a former Natural Resources College student, died on January 29 2012, under mysterious circumstances, […]
The Mzuzu High Court has acquitted George Sumaili who was charged in January last year with an offence of manslaughter which is contrary to section 208 of the Penal Code. Sumaili was being accused of unlawfully causing death of Leonard Muhammad on 19 January 2013 outside Immigration Regional offices in Mzuzu city following an argument. But […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has acquitted two Cops on manslaughter charges following allegations that they bludgeoned to death a suspected thief at Kafukule in Mzimba District in 2009 because the State had no objective evidence. The deceased, Robert Chima died of head injuries. “It is better to send 100 criminals home than to send […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has acquitted three of the six Police Officers from Mzuzu Police Station who were alleged to have had a hand in the death of Edison Msiska who died in police custody on January 29 this year, because of lack of objective evidence. Msiska, a former Natural Resources College student, died on January 29 […]
The Mzuzu High Court sitting in Mzimba on Monday sentenced a 25-year-old Milingo Kaima to seven years imprisonment for causing the death Samson Mhone following heavy fighting between the two. This was after Kaima, who hails from Ndindani village, T/A Kampingo Sibande in Mzimba, pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of manslaughter. The ‘killing’ Particulars […]