A murder trial of suspect Misonzi Chanthunya that he poisoned a 25-year-old Zimbabwean accountancy student could not go in full swing trial at the High Court in Zomba before Judge Redson Kapindu as State prosecutors raised the preliminary objections. Chanthunya is a prime suspect in the 2010 murder of Linda Gasa, who was believed to be his […]
Businessman Misozi Chanthunya as pleaded not guilty to the murder of his pregnant Zimbabwean girlfriend Linda Gasa in 2010. Asked to make a plea in the High Court on murder charge, Chanthunya denied any wrongdoing. The court also made a determination on bail application which was made through his lawyer Chrispin Ngunde. State prosecutors Dzikondianthu Malunda and […]
The High Court in Zomba will on June 4 make its determinations on a bail application by murder suspect Misozi Chanthunya who is being accused of murdering his Zimbabwean girlfriend Linda Gasa in 2010. The court was expected to hear Chanthunya take plea on May 31 but has shifted the date to June 4 where […]
High Court Judge Redson Kapindu is yet to set the date to rule whether to grant bail to murder suspect, Misozi Chanthunya, who is being accused of murdering his Zimbabwean girlfriend Linda Gasa in 2010. Gasa’s body, a 25-year-old Malawi College of Accountancy (MCA) student, was found buried under a concrete floor in a bathroom […]
The High Court in Zomba has ruled that the hearing of bail application for murder suspect Masozi Chamthunya, a businessman suspected of killing his girl friend in 2010, should be heard on April 30. The hearing was deferred on Thursday after the state observed that documents filed by the defense counsel for the bail application bore different signatures. […]
Businessman Misozi Chanthunya, who remains prime suspect in the murder of 25-year-old Zimbabwean ex-girlfriend Linda Gasa in 2010, is seeking bail from custody and his application will be heard at High Court in Zomba. Chanthyunya, who was recently extradited from South Africa, is currently on remand at Chichimutaz Prison in Blantyre. “There is a bail […]
Businessman Misozi Charles Chanthunya, accused of murdering a pregnant Zimbabwean girlfriend, who was extradited back home from South Africa last week, has been charged with murder and was on Saturday taken by investigators to Lake Malawi resort district Mangochi the alleged crime scene to obtain information. Chanthunya made headlines in September 2010 after Nyasa Times […]
Fugitive Misozi Chanthunya sought by Malawi police in connection with the murder of his girlfriend is back in the country after extradition from South Africa and arrived on Thursday International Airport (KIA) in Lilongwe amid tight security. Chanthunya jetted in on a Malawian Airline flight at 4.30pm escorted by International Police (Interpol). There was tight security which included […]
Malawian businessman Misozi Chanthunya, who fled to South Africa after his girlfriend was found brutally murdered, returns home on Thursday to answer murder charges after agreeing to be extradited, Ministry of Justice spokesperson Pilirani Masanjala has confirmed. “I can confirm that Mr Chanthunya arrives in the country on Thursday,” Majamanda said. He will arrive through […]
Fugitive businessperson Misozi Chanthunya has accepted extradition to Malawi from South Africa to face murder charges over the killing of pregnant Zimbabwean girlfriend Linda Gaza some seven years ago. Chanthunya is accused of murdering Gasa whose body was found buried under concrete at suspect’s lakeshore private cottage in Monkey-Bay, Mangochi. He now wants to hand […]
The High Court in Lilongwe has dismissed an application by fugitive businessperson Misozi Chanthunya – who also faces extradition to Malawi from South Africa – to be granted bail or discharged. Chanthunya is accused of murdering his pregnant Zimbabwean girlfriend Linda Gasa some seven years ago. His lawyer Donvan Sulungwe applied for bail and discharge […]
High Court judge Esmie Chombo has recused herself from making a determination on on whether fugitive businessperson Misozi Chanthunya should be granted bail or not, following alleged threats to her life related to the matter. Chanthunya, who is in South Africa where he has been in custody for close to six years, is accused of […]
Malawian businessman Misozi Chanthunya, who fled to South Africa after his Zimbabwean girlfriend Linda Gasa was found brutally murdered, should not be be released on bail by Malawian court as he is s currently held at the Kgosi Mampuru Prison in Pretoria, the State has told the High Court in Lilongwe. At issue is the […]
Malawian businessman Misozi Chanthunya, who fled to South Africa after his Zimbabwean girlfriend Linda Gasa was found brutally murdered, has launched yet another court action in his six-year campaign to stave off extradition to Malawi, as he now seeks to be released on bail and that the High Court in Malawi should discharge him. He […]
Malawi Police in Blantyre are hunting for Mrs Prudence Chanthunya, wife to murder suspect MisoziChanthunya, in connection with a hit and run accident after she crashed her vehicle into the brick fence of Polytechnic, a constituent college of the University of Malawi, and disappeared from the scene. According to eye witnesses, in November last year […]
A prominent civil rights activist has faulted the state for delayed extradition of murder suspect Misozi Chamthunya. Chamthunya was arrested in South Africa in 2012 where he allegedly took refuge for killing his girl friend Linda Gasa over pregnancy disagreements. Timothy Mtambo, the executive director of Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) said it […]
A High Court judge in South Africa is to rule on whether the Home Affairs Minister was wrong to allow the extradition of Malawian Misozi Charles Chanthunya, accused of murdering a pregnant Zimbabwean girlfriend. Chanthunya faces a murder charge which is punishable by death in Malawi. He has been fighting against his repatriation from South Africa in […]
The extradition case of Misozi Charles Chanthunya, accused of murdering a pregnant Zimbabwean girlfriend, has stalled in South Africa as Malawi government maintains that it is looking up to the South African Government for a way forward in repatriating him. Chanthunya faces a murder charge which is punishable by death in Malawi. He has been […]