ZAMBIA: CHIPATA HIGH COURT SENTENCES THREE TO DEATH

May 12, 2021:

The Chipata High Court has sentenced three people to death by hanging, in two different cases, the Mast reported on 12 May 2021.
A 32-year-old man of Sinda district was sentenced to death for killing his mother and a 56-year-old woman and her 28-year-old daughter have been slapped with the same sentence for murdering their daughter in-law.
Lusaka High Court judge Sharon Newa, sitting in the Chipata High Court, jailed John Daka who murdered his mother Faidess Phiri on 21 June 2019 at her garden near the Zambia/Mozambique border.
The court heard that Daka hit his mother on the forehead and mouth with a pounding stick after obtaining charms from Malawi in the hope of becoming rich.
Daka’s grandmother, Violet Phiri, told the court that her daughter was killed at her garden in Sokosi village in chieftainess Nyanje’s area on the Zambia- Mozambique border.
Judge Newa sentenced Daka to death by hanging until pronounced dead after convicting him of the offence.
She also sentenced Joyce Nyasulu and Mainess Manda of Lundazi to death by hanging for murdering their in-law whom they accused of being a prostitute.
Particulars of the offence were that Nyasulu and Manda on 8 October 2019 in Lundazi, murdered Felida Zimba, who was married to Gilbert Manda, the son to Joyce Nyasulu.
The duo murdered Zimba after suspecting her of being a prostitute and that she was found prostituting at a certain guest house in Lundazi.
Judge Newa said the duo committed a very gruesome murder.
She sentenced Nyasulu and Manda to death by hanging until pronounced dead.