The High Court in Blantyre has granted bail to DPP Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) regional governor for the South Noel Masangwi and five others on their connection with the murder of Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa last year. The High Court judge, Sylvester Kalembera, apart from Masangwi, has granted bail to DPP youth director Lewis Ngalande, Frank Julius, Sam Chulu, […]
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 […]
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) regional governor for the South Noel Masangwi and other suspects have been charged with an offence of murder in connection with the killing of University of Malawi’s Polytechnic student, Robert Chasowa. Lawyer representing Masangwi and others, Kalekeni Kaphale, confirmed that his clients were on Thursday formally charged at Blantyre Magistrate Court with […]
Nkhotakota Police says post-mortem results of a 50-year-old man who was found dead in Mambala River in Nkhotakota district has revealed that he died after being murdered by unknown thugs disputing earlier speculations that he drowned. Nkhotakota Police Spokesperson Kaitano Lubrino said the deceased, Malekano Mtete, 50, who hailed from Kalimanjira village in area of […]
The Citizen Committee on Good Governance is calling on government to act swiftly against the names of all those that have been mentioned in the commission of inquiry report on the death of Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa. The Committee together with most Malawians were shocked to learn that several individuals including former ruling Democratic Progressive Party […]
Police in Mzimba District are hunting for criminals who shot dead a head teacher at Luwanjati Junior Primary School in Champhira with a muzzle loader on Tuesday. Confirming the development Wednesday, Mzimba Police Spokesperson Constable Gift Nyirongo identified the head teacher as Arnold Saka, 45, from Chigwazi village in Traditional Authority Mzikubora in the district. […]
A man from area 36 in Lilongwe, Elemiya Chizeze, was killed following a dispute he had with a sex worker he had hooked at a drinking joint in the area on the night of 2nd to 3rd October 2012. According to information from Lilongwe police station Chizeze (24) went out for a drink on the said date […]
Police in Thyolo have arrested 18 year old Chamasowa Makwiya for stoning his mother, Ketrina Bulaundi to death. Thyolo Police Public Relations Officer, Edith Likaka told the Malawi News Agency on Monday that on October 5, the suspect quarreled with his aunt, Egry David over a knife. “The aunt was blaming the suspect that he […]
After hearing all the circumstances that lead to the death of Spurs cash and carry employee Charles Mahedi who was robbed off MK1.2 Million Zomba Chief Resident Magistrate Court Monday sentenced the two accused persons for the offence of robbery to 10 years with Imprisonment With Hard Labour (IHL), while waiting for murder case. The […]
At the inquest into the death of a Malawian woman who was strangled and dumped in a suitcase in Ireland, a taxi driver testified how he unsuspectingly helped a man put a bag containing the body of Rudo Mawere (26) into the boot of his car after she was murdered. The inquest at the Dublin […]
Six Police Officers from Mzuzu Police Station, who are accused of having a hand in the death of Edson Msiska, who died in police custody on January 29 this year, have asked the Court to acquit them in accordance with section 254 of the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Code saying the state’s evidence against them […]
There was a poignant tribute to murdered fourth-year Malawi Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa at the University of Malawi’s constituent college, Poly in Blantyre on Monday evening. Chasowa was found dead on September 24 2011. He is believed to have been killed by former ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) assailants. A commission of inquiry appointed to investigate circumstances […]
The body of a Malawian woman who was shot dead last week by an Asian trader in South Africa cannot be traced, family members have confirmed. The development has forced the relations to seek the intervention of the Malawi Embassy and the South Africa Government to help investigate the whereabouts of their departed family member. […]
Police in Karonga district have arrested two men on allegations that they murdered a 57-year-old man after he forced one of the suspects to buy plates from him. Karonga Police Station spokesperson Enock Livasoni confirmed the development saying the two suspects are Wakisa Simkoko, 30 years of Mwenitete village, Traditional Authority Kilipula and Kawo Mwangwewo, […]
A Malawian woman in her 30’s was on Monday shot dead in Rustenburg, South Africa by an Asian. The victim is identified as Memory Chisanga from Ntchesi township in the Capital Lilongwe . According reports, Chisanga was shot by an Indian on Monday evening when she was throwing stones at his shop. Police and relatives […]
Two unknown criminals Monday morning shot dead a traditional leader in Machinga District for unspecified reasons. The development comes barely two months after thugs also murdered two guards by crushing their heads while on duty at a filling station in the district. National Police Spokesperson Davie Chingwalu identified the traditional leader as 35-year-old Village Headman […]
Chikhwawa Police Public Relations Officer, Sergeant Sande Nguluwe, has confirmed the murder of Maxwell Phillip Chafulatira, a truck driver at Kokotowa investments. “Yes I would like to confirm that on Tuesday, we (Police) were tipped that there was a dead body with knife wounds, lying in a canal at the gate of area 4 in […]
Malawi police last Saturday arrested five people- three men and two women- on suspicion that they ruthlessly murdered a teenage trader in Phalombe District. The five suspects, among them, two 63-year-olds, beheaded Patrick Bikisani, a 16-year-old pork vendor, on or around July 29. Phalombe Police identified the five suspected assailants as Lucy Abraham (Miss), 22, Dinson Kokoma, 39, […]