ONE of the suspects alleged to have broken into the Kitwe Mayor’s house has narrated in the Kitwe Magistrate Court that the two laptops he was found with were sold to him by a taxi driver.

He said the taxi driver was killed by the police at Riverside Police Station.

Emmanuel Chisha told the court that Oscar Sakala sold him the two laptops which belong to Christopher Kang’ombe and only realised they were stolen property after he was arrested.

Chisha said after he was arrested he led police to Sakala and the recovery of the property.

He explained however that after the police apprehended Sakala, they started beating the two of them until Sakala lost consciousness and died.

And in cross examination, Chisha said he now believed that the two laptops were stolen but he was not the one who stole them.

The matter came up for Defence before Magistrate Dominic Lesa.

Chisha and Webby Mupeta were charged with one count of burglary and theft. On August 22, last year in Kitwe the two broke into Mr Kang’ombe’s house and stole one television set, one DVD player and two laptops all together valued at K31,000.

Meanwhile Mupeta asked the court for forgiveness as he had already been convicted and serving a five-year sentence for a different offence and insisted that he had no idea about the current offence he was facing.