President Joyce Banda has called for concerted effort between the Malawi Police Service, communities and community policing groups if issues of crime are to be reduced in the country. The Malawi leader’s call follows the arrest of five suspects in a case involving the gruesome murder of a 51 year old Richard Nsamala, an Indebank employee […]
Malawi Police Services have arrested four men for assaulting and killing a security guard who was working for Al Pasinos Club in Nyambadwe, commercial city Blantyre. The four are Zain Philip 23 years old, Murrad Philip 28 both hail from Nkululira village T/A Nthilamanja in Mulanje,. The others are Almetan Mussa 17 years old of […]
In an effort to wipe off crime, Malawi Police have arrested two men suspected to have murdered a 51-year- old Blantyre based banker whose body has been exhumed in waist-deep pit behind his house in Malawi’s commercial city, Blantyre. The suspects, Timothy Sinalo and Kenneth Chimwanga are believed to have murdered 51-year-old Richard Nsamala earlier this […]
The Mzuzu High Court has given the Malawi Police Service seven days to co-sign an autopsy report for Edison Msiska, a former Natural Resources College student, who died in Police custody on January 29, 2012. Judge Dingswayo Madise gave the order on Friday after prosecution witness number four, renowned Pathologist Doctor Charles Dzamalala testified in the ongoing […]
Six Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Officers have pleaded not guilty to murder charge in a case where they are accused to have clobbered to death a suspect who was in custody. The much awaited trial, which commenced at Mzuzu High Court on Tuesday, is closely watched and is seen as a test case of how […]
In the latest string of insecurity a 16-year-old boy has been found dead in Phalombe. His head had been cut off. Police has identified the deceased as Patrick Bikisani. According to Phalombe Police spokesperson, Sergeant August Nkhwazi, the boy went missing on July 29. It is understood that the people beheaded the boy for ritual […]
After a spate of uncertainty that surrounded the reasons behind the arrest of two Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) associates, Geoffrey Botomani and Petro Tembo, the state has finally charged the two in connection with last year’s murder of Polytechnic student Robert Chasowa . It had to take close to two weeks for the suspects to know […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has set August 7th 2012 for hearing a of a case in which six Police Officers from Mzuzu Police Station are alleged to have murdered Edison Msiska in Police Custody early this year. The court set the date in its order after the State applied to vary the suspects’ bail conditions […]
Malawi Police Service (MPS) spokesperson Davie Chingwalu has claimed that crime rate had decreased significantly but conceded that they an upward trend was observed in cases of murder and robberies after the shoot-to-kill police has been dropped. A comparison of data of crime rate in the months from January to June this year revealed that crime […]
Malawi police in the northern district of Mzimba have arrested a Zambian national in connection with the murder of Chawezi Soko of Kaphuta village, T/A M’mbelwa in the district. Mzimba police spokesperson Gift Nyirongo confirmed the arrest in an interview with Nyasa Times on Wednesday. Nyirongo identified the suspect as Moses Lutepo 17, of Kanyelo […]
What started as one of the normal days for 42-year-old mother, Chrissy Yonasi, ended brutally after her life was prematurely terminated. The woman, from Kanseche Village, T/A Lundu in Chikhwawa district, was hacked to death with a hoe as she returned from a rice field on Tuesday. Chikhwawa Police spokesperson, Sunday Nguluwe, confirmed the development, […]
A South African court has supported the extradition of Malawian murder suspect, Misozi Chanthunya, but has given him a right to appeal. Malawi judicial officers asked South African government to repatriate Chanthunya to Malawi so that he can answer murder charges. Solicitor General, Anthony Kamanga, confirmed the Rustenburg court ruled that Chanthunya’s extradition was legal and […]
Malawi Police Service have apprehended a second suspect in the murder and gang raping four months ago of a Blantyre man and his 18-year-old girl friend respectively. Blantyre Police Assistant Public Relations Officer, Lameck Thembachako identified the suspect as 28-year-old Jimmy Khumalo. The first suspect, Jonasi Zakeyu also aged 28, according to Thembachako, was arrested […]
Police in Nkhotakota District are keeping in custody a 23 year old man who axed his father to death after several witch doctors pointed his father as the source of his myriad problems. Police have since recovered a mobile phone and MK5,000 cash from the initial MK14,000 which they believe was stolen from the deceased. […]
Malawian murder suspect Misozi Chanthunya is today, May 24, expected to appear in a South African court for hearing on whether or not he should be repatriated to Malawi to face charges. A two-man Malawian delegation from the Ministry of Justice and office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) respectively left the country last […]
A South African court will next week rule on whether Malawian businessman and fugitive murder suspect, Misozi Chanthunya will be extradited to Malawi for a murder trial. Chanthunya is the main suspect in the Linda Gasa murder, a Zimbabwean 25 year-old student who was at the time studying in Malawi at the College of Accountancy […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has granted bail to six Police Officers from Mzuzu Police Station who were arrested on April 18, 2012 in connection with the brutal death of Edison Msiska in Police Custody early this year because the State failed to avail itself for the bail hearing. The suspects were not in court […]
India and Pakistan nationals, who have business investments in Malawi, have strongly condemned the brutal murder of 48-year-old British national of Asian origin, Mrs. Batul Asif Gaffer, one of the directors of Riverside Hotel. The woman was murdered at her home by six thugs armed with guns and Panga knifes Sunday afternoon. The murderers went […]