Crime Archives

Breaking: Police shoot three vendors in Limbe

Jan 15, 2016 Geoffrey Banda 516 &

Malawi Police officers in Limbe, Blantyre have this evening shot three vendors who were doing their business at a restricted premise close to Block Buster shop leaving them with serous injuries, Malawi24 can confirm. When… ...

Church watchman and friend jailed for theft

Jan 15, 2016 Geoffrey Banda 23 &

Nkhotakota New Apostolic Church watchman Luke Simfukwe (26) and his friend Bernard Zimwanda (30) were on Wednesday convicted to two years and 18 months imprisonment respectively for stealing iron sheets at the church in Nkhotakota.… ...

Man gets 9 years for raping a boy

Jan 15, 2016 Archangel Nzangaya 112 &

The Lilongwe magistrate court has sentenced a 49 year-old Malawian man to 9 years imprisonment with hard labour after he was found guilty of raping a 15 year-old boy. Police prosecutor Sergeant Dyton Phiri identified… ...

Just in: Mwanza man brutally killed, head skin removed

Jan 15, 2016 Happy Arnold Soko 243 &

The 30-year-old Malawian man has been found lying dead just before 6 a.m. this morning in Thambani, Mwanza district with his face 'sliced' off with a sharp object, Malawi24 can reveal. The deceased whose name… ...

Jealous man beats ex-wife into a coma in Nkhatabay

Jan 15, 2016 Thula Chisamba 15 &

Malawi Police in the northern region district of Nkhatabay have launched a manhunt for a man who is suspected to have severely thumped his ex-wife into a coma because of jealousy. Police publicist for the… ...

Scare after woman kills her three kids in Mchinji

Jan 15, 2016 Geoffrey Banda 27 &

A few days after a Blantyre based man Charles Chipanda committed suicide after murdering his wife and step-son in Zingwangwa Township, a woman believed to be mentally ill in Mchinji has killed her three biological… ...

Soldier fined for being found with marijuana

Jan 14, 2016 Geoffrey Banda 105 &

Andrew Matochi, a 34 year-old Malawian soldier from Kamuzu Barracks has been fined K100,000 after Police in Nkhotakota apprehended him for being found with Indian hemp which he claimed to be Cassava flour (Kondowole). Nkhotakota… ...