A TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD man of Chisamba will spend 45 years in jail for raping his 82-year-old grandmother after threatening to kill her. Kabwe High Court Judge Kelvin Limbani sent to jail Sapran Musekewa on Thursday, describing his behaviour as shameful. The woman fainted during the ordeal. “I find it very aggravating that you raped your grandmother. […]
There was wailing and crying at the Choma Fast Track Court for Gender Based Violence Thursday following the conviction of Actor Sikabeko, a 36 year old man accused of defiling his tenant’s daughter. Byta FM Court Beat Journalist reports that Sikabeko’s niece, 20 year old Delia Banda who earlier testified as defense witness briefly fainted […]
A FARMER of Serenje has lost K62,000 he raised from the sale of maize in Nakonde after a prostitute he allegedly picked to spend a night with stole the money as he was asleep. Obert Kalengo, 34, travelled to Nakonde to sell 1,090 bags of maize to a private buyer and made K120,000, which he […]
A 47-YEAR-OLD man of Mansa will spend 28 years in jail for attempting to barter his son for a boat and fishing nets worth K6,800. And the Mansa High Court has ordered the detention of a 16-year-old girl who sold her child at K1,000 plus a mobile phone. Sitting in Mansa, Ndola High Court Judge […]
Police in Lusaka have raided the residence of the deregistered National Democratic Congress party, leader Chishimba Kambwili. Police deputy Spokesperson Danny Mwale says police only went to Kambwili’s residence to deliver summons for interrogations. Mr. Mwale has however refused to give any details of the interrogations set for tomorrow, Wednesday. But sources have revealed […]
FIVE police officers in Mpika district have been arrested and charged with murder following the death of two suspects who reportedly jumped out of a moving vehicle last week in a bid to escape. The officers have been arrested after results of a postmortem conducted on the two murder suspects revealed that they died of […]
High Court Judge Yvonne Chembe has sentenced a Samfya couple to death for murdering a 2-year-old child and extracting his heart for sale. Sitting in Mansa, Judge Chembe passed the judgment yesterday. This is in a matter which 27-year-old Bonaventure Mwewa and his wife and Esnart Mwewa aged 22 both of Kabanga village were […]
A STAFF sergeant in the Zambia Army in Kabwe has shocked his family after he was exposed for allegedly sexually abusing his 12-year-old daughter. The 31-year-old suspect of Chimanimani, identified as Godfrey Miyanda, is now in police custody and is facing a charge of incest. Central Province commissioner of police Chola Katanga in an interview […]
POLICE yesterday detained 19-year-old Luyando Kopakopa who is accusing Legana Meat Products of putting foreign objects in their sausages. Luyando’s first accusation appeared on Facebook last week claiming she had found a condom in Legana sausage she had bought a few days before. Her accusations were widely dismissed by the public including Legana Meat Products […]
A 74-YEAR-OLD Lusaka man’s plea to be exempted from going to prison on account of old age could not prevent a magistrate from imposing a three-year jail term on him for swindling an accountant out of K250,000 under the pretext that he had land for sale. Before sending Peter Manda to jail, Lusaka magistrate Felix […]