PRECIOUS Longwe has denied stealing K200,000 that was allegedly discovered in her bedroom after she shot dead her husband in 2016. Longwe is accused of stealing K200,000 from BancABC which the police who were investigating the murder of her husband Akakanda Litebele found in the matrimonial bedroom. In her defence, Longwe told magistrate Nthandose Chabala […]
A BUSINESSMAN of Indian origin has appeared in the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court for allegedly defiling and indecently assaulting four girls Before court was M’vipan Gavtam, 46, of Lusaka’s Woodlands area. Gavtam is facing one count of defilement and three counts of indecent assault on females, contrary to the Laws of Zambia In count one, it […]
THE Supreme Court has reduced the jail sentence of a drug trafficker from 20 years to five years after it found that the punishment was too harsh for a first offender. This is a case in which James Simbeye was convicted of trafficking in 44.2 kilogrammes of miraa. On October 10, 2006 in Nakonde, Simbeye […]
The Drug Enforcement Commission-DEC at the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka has arrested two individuals for trafficking and importation of ephedrine. DEC Deputy Public Relations Officer Kamufisa Manchishi has told Phoenix News in a statement that Millcent Beebe, 41, a medical records officer at the University Teaching Hospital of house number 22, DK Compound […]
THE state has closed its prosecution in the case where Nigerian prophet Isaac Julius Amata is alleged to have trafficked and imported a psychotropic substances namely, 26.29 Kg of Ephedrine as the two witnesses from Nigeria and South Africa could not be availed. When the matter came up yesterday for continuation of trial before magistrate […]
The police officer who was involved in a traffic road accident on Wednesday last week has been charged with dangerous driving and has paid admission of guilty fine. Police spokesperson Esther Katongo says the officer will bear all the cost of the damage that was caused during the accident. But the owner of the shop […]
The Mongu High Court has sentenced three Congolese and a Zambian to 25 years imprisonment with hard labour for human trafficking. Meanwhile, 33 people have been arrested countrywide by the Immigration Department for various immigration offences. According to a statement issued by the Department of Immigration Public Relations Officer Namati Nshinka, Monday, the four were […]
The Drug Enforcement Commission through its Anti-Money Laundering Investigations Unit in Eastern Province has arrested and jointly charged a 48 year-old female Magistrate and a student for being in possession of counterfeit notes. Wendy Juliet Tembo, 48, a Magistrate of Shimukunami Local Court in Lufwanyama District has been arrested and jointly charged with Obrien Banda, […]
LUSAKA, 10TH APRIL, 2018 – Police in Chalimbana yesterday picked up a body of a male juvenile identified as Tunashe Mumba whose body was found without a head. The report was made by Micheal Mumba aged 28 years of Sichembe Farm situated on Great East Road, a care taker that his son identified as Tunashe […]
A Chipata man has been sentenced to three years, imprisonment with hard labor, for stealing a mobile phone. Dalitso Ngoma, aged nineteen years old, stood charged with one count of burglary and theft. Early last month, Ngoma broke into the house of Joseph Mumba and stole a handset, valued at two hundred kwacha. In mitigation, […]