Three Pakistanis convicted for kidnapping 5-year-old boy: Malawian suspect walked free
Three Malawians of Asian origin have been convicted for kidnapping a five-year-old boy Tahil Shail of Asian extract.
The three Pakistanis were arrested on December 11 2018 when they abducted a five-year-old child Tahil Shail of Asian extract demanded a K3 billion ransom from his parents.
Blantyre Magistrate Court heard from prosecution that the kidnappers demanded that the boy’s father Mohammed Shail, 34, a Malawian of Asian origin who has a string of businesses in both Blantyre and Lilongwe, to pay a $4 million (about K3 billion) ransom.
The three Pakistanis were charged alongside their four Malawians accomplices with an offence of kidnapping in order to subject person to ransom contrary to Section 263 of the Penal Code and child trafficking contrary to Section 79 (1) of Child Care, Protections and Justice Act.
The Chief Resident Magistrate acquitted three others and one Malawian Ibrahim Omar Mataya, 21, had his case withdrawn after the State made an application on undisclosed reasons.
Presiding magistrate Simeon Mdeza now promoted as High Court judge found three men guilty and consequently convicted Lehrassib Khan, 25: Hanza Akbar, 23, son in-law of Shail and master minder Shazed Khan, 22 – all Pakistanis.
The three, who abducted the child from Mpingwe on December 11 2018 and dropped him at Kanjedza mosque , have since been remanded to prison pending sentencing.
According to private practice lawyer Goba Chipeta who was part of the prosecution team, the sentencing will be held on December 29 2020.
Abductions are rare in Malawi.
Islam is not a religion of peace. It is the most violent religion. Look at what islam is doing in west africa and now mozambique. It is the cancer iof the world
Don’t criticise Islam or any religion. Pakis carry a bad reputation worldwide. If they have indeed committed a crime let the court decide we should not allow such in our society.
JESUS CHRIST! SOME OF THE COMMENTS ON THIS FORUM ARE VERY DISTURBING DISGUSTING VENOMOUS AND SICK TOWARDS ISLAM. ISLAM IS A PEACEFUL COMPASSIONATE RELIGION AND IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES COMMITTED BY INDIVIDUALS. So stop attacking the faith. THIS KIND OF INTOLERANCE and HATRED EXISTS IN INDIA, RIDDEN IN INTOLERANCE HATE BJP/RSS FACIST NATIONALIST EXTREMISTS HINDUTVA IDEOLOGY. Please REFRAIN from such EVILS to make Malawi truly a worm heart of Africa.
LET THEM DO THEIR TIME FOR THEIR CRIMES and soon after DEPORT THEM BACK TO THEIR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN. I want to know who let them in the country in the first place?? Was it an Asian??? Not it was a black man who took a bribe (CORRUPTION) and tarnished the name of the country by letting in the undocumented criminals into Malawi. I rest my case.
Wait a mijute, a 34 year old man has a son-in-law?? As in atvtgat age, his daughter is grown and married already?
Of Asian extract? What’s that
Thirty years imprisonment with hard labour.
Send them to Pakistan . We don’t do that here in Malawi
Plz deport these Bin Laden’s nephews back to Pakistan, we hate these dirty pigs, tell them this is a Christian country not other way round.
Kkkkkkkkk…I like your description of these abductors, bin laden nephews…dirty pigs…sure thus what they are. They must deport them with harsh details. Off malawi with their stinking behaviour.
YOU SHOULD NOT USE RACISM TO MAKE YOUR POINT. Grow up and show some respect for the community. Don’t paint everybody with the same brush. I rest my case.
Malawian of Pakistani origin? There can be no Pakistanis or Indians or any foreigners who can hold Malawi Citizenship. Malawi needs to wake up and deport these imposters. Malawi law does not allow Malawi Citizenship to these crooks. MCP is failing to clean up the mess inherited from UDF and then DPP.
It’s not that easy. If they are born in Malawi, and citizens from birth, then no other country in the world will accept them if deported. Actually you can’t deport them out of Malawi as long as they have citizenship. International treaties say that you cannot revoke the last citizenship of anyone. So if they only hold a Malawian passport, you cannot revoke or as no one are supposed to be stateless. Additionally, no airlines are allowed to bring passengers that don’t have a passport or visa to the destination country. If they do, it becomes their problem at the… Read more »
Don’t deport them because they will come back in a different name.
Send them to Maula prison for 30yrs
Ngati simudziwa zinazi better shut up. You can’t understand that those are naturalised Malawians now?
FOR A START YOU STINK OF HATE AND VENOM, HENCE DANGER TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. You should be locked up and the keys thrown away. I blame Your upbringing. You are as SICK as IDI AMIN.
a34 year man already has a son—inlaw… sipanachitike ka child marriage pena pake mulandu winansotu uwu
Kkkk zoona, uwu ndi mlandu winanso
Mwina ndi brother wa mkazi wake
ny reaction exactly!