A COLD-BLOODED killer who brutally butchered a 35-year-old farmer with an axe and buried his body in a shallow pit has been jailed for life. Fombe Nyamatchilenga launched a violent attack on innocent Moses Semu before callously hiding his remains in a hole. Alarm bells rang when Mr Semu’s cattle returned home alone from grazing […]
Chilling new details have emerged in the murder trial of Agnes Katengeza, after police told the High Court that a painstaking trail of stolen electronic devices — including her iPhone — ultimately led investigators to her own family. Detective Sub-Inspector Penjani Ng’ambi told the court in Lilongwe how officers used the International Mobile Equipment Identity […]
An FDH Bank employee found dead inside her own car has been confirmed to have died from a devastating gunshot wound to the neck, according to a harrowing postmortem report that has plunged colleagues and family into grief and left police scrambling to track down her killers. Tathokoza Salimu was discovered lifeless in her vehicle […]
A murder investigation has been launched in Dowa after a 31-year-old bank employee was found dead in a blood-soaked vehicle abandoned along the Dzaleka–Dowa Boma road, in a discovery that has left the local community reeling. The victim, named as Tathokoza Salimu, was found last evening at Chinkhota Village, near Tatolonga Bridge — in circumstances […]
A Zimbabwean national has been convicted of murdering his own brother following a bitter and escalating feud over their family business — with a judge revealing the pair had become locked in a chilling battle over who would kill the other first. Pardon Masukweza was found guilty by the High Court in Lilongwe of the […]
A British national has been caged for 45 years after being convicted of murdering his wife in a case that has dragged through Malawi’s courts for nearly seven years. Mohamed Shahid Iqbal Juma was on Thursday handed the lengthy sentence by the High Court’s Criminal Division in Lilongwe, after being found guilty of killing his […]
Malawi Police have arrested a 52-year-old businessman on suspicion of taking part in a horrifying armed robbery that left a heavily pregnant woman shot dead and her husband fighting for his life. Pofera Boma was picked up by Kanengo Police on September 6, 2026, as detectives closed in on the gang responsible for the harrowing […]
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, […]
The High Court in Blantyre has adjourned the murder trial of seven people accused of killing Dr Victoria Bobe until 30 November 2026, after the State concluded its case with harrowing final testimony from a terrified security guard who was overpowered and tied up on the night of the fatal attack. Judge Ruth Chinangwa announced […]
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 […]
Harrowing forensic evidence was heard at the High Court in Blantyre today, as the murder trial of seven people accused of killing Dr Victoria Bobe took a dramatic turn with detailed medical testimony describing the exact nature of the fatal shooting. Pathologist Dr Steve Kamiza told the court that Bobe was killed by a close-range […]
A dramatic scene inspection unfolded at the Lilongwe residence of murdered Reserve Bank of Malawi employee Agnes Katengeza this morning, as the High Court descended on the property in Area 49, Baghdad, as part of the ongoing murder trial. The unusual move came after both the State and the defence jointly applied for the inspection, […]
Judge blasts authorities as pair — hijacked at gunpoint by the REAL killers — are released after true culprits confess to horrific highway murder Two innocent men who spent six agonising months behind bars, wrongly linked to a horrific murder they had nothing to do with, have finally walked free — after a judge tore […]
Defence lawyers demand case be thrown out — but judge sets October showdown dates A dramatic courtroom battle erupted as defence lawyers fighting for eight accused murderers demanded the case against them be scrapped — only to be rebuffed by a no-nonsense judge who set new hearing dates and made clear she will not tolerate […]
Police in Nkhata Bay have arrested four men in connection with the murder of an elderly man who was gunned down while sitting by the fire with his wife at home. Ackim Phiri, 66, Boston Kanyinji, 60, Sindani Kanyinji, 27, and Charles Kanyinji, 26, all of Chavula Village in Senior Chief Fukamapiri, have been detained […]