Malawi Police has said three people have been arrested on suspicion of having played part in the killing of a long time Greek tobacco farmer at Namwera in Mangochi, Harry Yiannakis, who was shot at his estate in May. A 62-year-old farmer was also robbed off K14 million the day he was killed at his […]
The High Court will hear the case of 12 people including a Catholic Priest, police officer and medical practitioner accused of killing a person with albinism, Mac Donald Masambuka , after the Senior Resident Magistrate Court in Zomba has made the referral. Senior Resident Magistrate, Paul Chiotcha said that the 12 accused people will answer […]
Malawi police say they are hunting for main suspect in an alleged gang-rape and murder of a teenage girl in Chikwawa district. Chikwawa Police Station Public Relations Officer, Constable Foster Benjamin said the deceased Cecilia Mushakala was on Tuesday morning found dead in a bush at Wizalama Village in Senior Chief Mphuka’s area in Thyolo, close […]
A Ntchisi man died on Sunday morning from injuries he sustained during a fight he had with his wife on Friday, Malawi police have confirmed. Ntchisi Police spokesperson Gladson Mbumpha identified the deceased as Medson Tambala from Yobe Village in the area of Traditional Authority Chilooko in the district. The wife who is currently in […]
A 28 year – old woman, Tamara Chirambo, is in police custody in Mangochi for allegedly killing her biological son following a quarrel the mother had with her husband, Thomas Harawa, police confirmed Thursday. Chirambo, a second wife to Harawa, a fisherman is suspected to have killed the son, Thomas Harawa Junior, on Tuesday night […]
Police in Lilongwe are keeping in custody a 21 year man for confessing to the killing of his girl, beheading her and dumping her head in a toilet. Kanengo police spokesperson Labani Makalani alleged that the relationship between the girl Chipiliro Mateke and Madalitso Byson was on ice cold after the girl’s decision to dump […]
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 […]
Malawi Police are still investigating a case in which a five-year old girl, Monica Chunga, was allegedly murdered in March this year in Dowa. Speaking in an interview Dowa Police Station’s Officer in Charge, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Owen Maganga, said the case might take longer since police have recorded no concrete evidence that the […]
A 38-year old man is in police custody in Dedza after he allegedly hacked his friend to death for flirting with his ex-wife. Dedza police spokesperson Edward Kabango identified the suspect as Moses Fakileni. Kabango said Fakileni divorced his wife in February, then he heard that his friend, Laurent Chikutike was telling people that he […]
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 […]
Six year old Tadala Kabefu from Kabuthu village in the area of Traditional Authority Mkumpha in Likoma district was on Tuesday found dead after being defiled and murdered by unknown assailants. According to Chizumulu Police Public Relations Officer, Mcliff Nguluwe, the deceased and her mother went to her grandparents to pay a visit. “At her […]
A 28 year old Limbani Rabson Maliro has pleaded guilty to murdering evangelist Shadreck Jonas Wame at his house in Salima in 2016. Maliro, who worked as the cleric’s househel, pleaded guilty before the High Court sitting in the lakeshore district . He killed Wame, a presbyterian minister, in his bedroom. And Police captured him in Thyolo after a […]
A 44 year old man has been killed in Lilongwe for allegedly molesting women using magic at Area 50 location in the capital Lilongwe. Kanengo Police Public Relations Officer Sub-Inspector Laban Makalani identified the deceased as Masauko Koshoni. Makalani said the man was caught while attempting to sexually assualt a married woman in Area 50 […]
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 […]
Police in Chikwawa have arrested a primary school teacher on suspicion that he killed a 35 year old man over a debt emanating from beer. The suspect, Edasi Mikano, 34, a teacher at Kaole Primary School, allegedly assaulted to death Robert Getinala on Thursday at a beer drinking joint within Misano Village in the area […]
Two suspects were charged in the murder of a 22 year old man identified as Iginasiyo Sande from Maluphya village Traditional Authority (T/A) Ngabu in Chikhwawa. Malawi police identified the two suspects arsJoseph Boidi aged 26, from Chipumi village T/A Nduwa in Mchinji and Owen William aged 25, from Mcheneka village T/A Kachere in Dedza district. Kanengo police station spokesperson, […]
Makande Second Grade Magistrate’s Court in Chikwawa has sentenced Maureen Dick to two years imprisonment with hard labour for failing to protect her five – year – old daughter who was murdered and had her private parts removed by assailants. Dick, 24, was on Friday found guilty of failing to protect a child from exposure […]
Malawi Police in Chikwawa say the district has registered six gruesome murder cases from January to date, describing the situation as very worrying. Chikwawa Police Station Officer – in – Charge, Assistant Commissioner Davie Chingwalu said that the killings were registered in the areas of Chiefs Kasisi, Ndakwera, Makhuwira, Lundu and Nchalo and Ngabu trading […]