A 19-year-old boy in Malawi’s northern border district of Karonga, who is answering charges of raping 84 year-old grandmother, is pushing for DNA tests to ascertain whether the sperms found on the granny’s private parts are indeed his. Court documents identify the boy as Mickson Kayera of Mweningoongo village Traditional Authority Mwakaboko in Karonga and […]
In what could be described as the worst form of rape, a 22-year-old man has been thrown in jail to serve 14 years for murdering his own grandmother before raping her. Besides serving his 14 years, the convict will also be waiting for the murder charge which has been referred to the Malawi High Court. […]
A self-proclaimed prophet, Anthony Lazalo, has been jailed for 10 years for raping a 20-year-old woman during a “cleansing ceremony”, Chikhwawa Police spokesperson, Sunday Ngulube confirmed. Sergeant Owen Kamanga of Malawi Police, prosecuting the case, told Chikhwawa Magistrate’s Court that the self-styled prophet sexually assaulted a Form Four student at Phwadzi Community Day Secondary School (name shielded). […]
Mzuzu First Grade Magistrate has urged Members of Parliament to revisit the penalty given to persons who are found guilty of sleeping with other people through magic if communities are to be safe from such malpractices. First Grade Magistrate Cuthbert Phiri made the appeal on Wednesday when he presided over a case involving a 27 […]
A herbalist in the northern region district of Mzimba has been sentenced to 8 years imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) for raping a 19 year old married woman on the pretext of treating her to get love therapy. Mzimba first grade magistrate George Longwe sent to jail 53 year old herbalist Griffin Vitima Mlenje after […]
Hope Chipwatali 36, a clinical officer at Mzuzu Central Hospital who was convicted on charges that he sexually assaulted a patient after he sedated her, has been jailed for eight years. Prosecution led by Jacob Montfort Nambiri proved that Chiphwatali of Chimbia Village Traditional Authority Kaphuka in Dedza district, took advantage of the patient’s mental illness […]
The Mzuzu Chief Resident Magistrate Court has convicted a Clinical Officer Hope Chiphwatali with rape of an imbecile while on duty at Mzuzu Central Hospital saying the state had proved beyond reasonable doubt all the elements of rape. The court said it will pass its sentencing on Thursday. Maximum penalty for pape in Malawi is […]
A clinical officer at Mzuzu Central Hospital charged with sexually assaulting a mentally challenged patient early this year has asked the Mzuzu Magistrate Court to dismiss the case arguing that prosecution evidence has failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that he raped the patient. In the Chief Resident Magistrate Court under Criminal case number 4 […]
A First Grade Magistrate Court in Malawi’s central region district of Nkhotakota has sentenced a 35 year old herbalist to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour for raping his client. State prosecutor Sergeant James Muyira told the court that that the convict, Kadya Harid Umandi from Lizindo II village, Traditional Authority Malengachanzi raped his customer […]
The Magistrate Court in Mzuzu has jailed a 24 year old man to six years imprisonment with hard labour for attempting to rape a 19 year old woman at Ekwendeni Trading Centre in Mzimba District after disguising himself as her real husband. The court on Friday heard that the convict, Semeon Nhlema on December 31st, […]
The Magistrate Court in Mzuzu has barred clinical officer at Mzuzu Central Hospital from reporting for work until the court clears him of allegations of sexually assaulting a female mental patient. Hope Chipwatali 36, of Chimbia Village Traditional Authority Kaphuka in Dedza District has since been charged with defilement of an imbecile contrary to Section 139 […]
Police in Mzuzu have arrested a Clinical Officer at Mzuzu Central Hospital on charges that he sexually assaulted a patient Tuesday morning in the consultation room after he sedated her on the pretext that he was giving her medicine for her ailment. Mzuzu Police Station Public Relations Officer Maurice Chapola in a statement released on Wednesday […]
Malawi’s High Court will review the judgement of the Dowa first grade magistrate Titus Banda acquitted a 50-year-old Rwandan who allegedly raped a 10 year-old. The girl was allegedly sexually assaulted when she went to Dzaleka Refugee Camp to recharge her mother’s phone at Seleman Jonathan’s shop and medical report tendered in court proved she […]
Police in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre on New Year’s Day rescued a middle-aged woman who was about to be raped by minibus touts at Mudi River bridge near the city’s main market after they undressed her for wearing a miniskirt. The incident happened when the lady was coming from Blantyre Market around 9 am. An […]
A 17-year-old girl from Mkhota Village, T/A Santhe in Malawi’s central region tobacco growing district of Kasungu is reeling from trauma after a 27-year-old man abducted and held her captive in his house and turned her into a sex slave for 11 days. The girl (name withheld) narrated her ordeal on Wednesday December 12 three […]
Officer–in–charge for Chilipa Police Unit in the Malawi’s southern district of Mangochi has been demoted and transferred to Mangochi Police station two weeks after his arrest for sexually assultingt a suspect in a police cell. Police in Mangochi had earlier in the month arrested Sergeant Ntalika after he raped a Mozambican woman he had arrested […]
An unusual sexual appetite went beyond the borders on Thursday as Police in Blantyre arrested an Asian national and businessman, Abubakar A.A Qureshi, 63 for ejaculating in his 21 years old housemaid’s mouth. He allegedly fondled the privacy of his house help (name shielded) and ejaculated in her mouth to quench his sexual fires. The […]
The Blantyre Magistrates Court has sentenced to four years Imprisonment with Hard Labour (IHL) a 32 year old man for defiling his step-daughter. Patrick Watiba who hails from khugula village T/A Mbawela in Thyolo has earned himself a jail term for failing to control his ‘boiling blood’ and constantly defiled his step daughter aged 15 […]