Rapist gets 12 years in prison


Machinga

The Nkhatabay Magistrate Court has sentenced 22 year-old Patrick Kamwanja to 12 years imprisonment with hard labour for raping a 13 year-old girl.

The court heard that the victim was at her brother’s house when she received a message that she was wanted by the suspect at his house.

“When the victim went there, the suspect took her to his bedroom where he defiled her,” state prosecutor Evance Kamtukule said.

CourtThe incident was then reported to Police and medical examination conducted at St Peter’s Mission Hospital in Likoma revealed that the girl had been sexually abused.

In court, the suspect pleaded not guilty but he later admitted to have raped the girl after the state paraded four witnesses.

In mitigation, Kamwanja pleaded for leniency saying that he is young and it is his first time to commit an offence. He added that his family would suffer because he is the bread winner.

Prosecutor Kamtukule asked for a stiff punishment for Kamwanja so that other people should get a lesson.

Passing his judgement, first grade magistrate Billy Ngosi sentenced the rapist to 12 years imprisonment with hard labour.

The convict hails from Kachere Village, Traditional Authority Mkumpha in Likoma.

26 thoughts on “Rapist gets 12 years in prison

  1. iyaa amusiye amati akanyenge kuti? iye samafuna kukodza. ngati maliche a mtsikananayo alipo basi amusiye. malo amene ali kuprison ndi osungira anthu okupha ma albino osati kugwirira. kapena atamuyeza wapezeka ndi matenda mtsikanayo? monga mtsikanayo sadamve kukoma? ZOPUSA!

  2. @22 he is still ayoungman, yes he deserve to be punished but zaka zachuluka, cashgate convicts r getting peanut punishment why this youngman? poor Malawian laws

  3. Dzika za dziko lamalawi zikuvutikadi bola kumangokhara kunja kuno kaya adzitiphe bola koma 13yrs kundenda zikusiyana patani kulibe ufulu kumeneko

  4. Dzika za dziko lamalawi zikuvutikadi bola kumangokhara kunja kuno kaya adzitiphe bola koma 13yrs kundenda zikusiyana patani kulibe ufulu kumeneko

  5. Mw 24 are these true stories or not? ku Bt mukut 13yrs ,NB 13yrs.mw yoseyo mwangodzadzana asikana a 13yrs?.mwayamba kupeka eti

  6. Ok? why rape? mpiru, cabbege , chomoliya , nkhwani zambirimbiri mmakwalalamu? pena ndi ndi abo masamba amenewa ndiwayesako pena nkupasidwako 12yrs pa poly with degree in mauthi hasola

  7. Come a rrest and imprisonment me too, I had raped a 10 year girl for four times but no one arrested me….Okay anyway I will arrest myself Lol

  8. Pano ku malawi kuno mtsikana wazaka ngati zimenezo simene akudelelera anthu ndie mwachidule simwana koma mtsikana poti sadagwilizane basi put him in jail and adding some more year

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