By Chisomo Phiri
The High Court of Malawi, sitting in Kasungu District, on Monday July 15,2024 sentenced four convicts to 40 years imprisonment, with the fifth receiving 50 years and life imprisonment for the murder of a three-year-old girl with albinism.
The little girl, Talandira Chirwa, was killed in 2022 in Kasungu.
The Court, presided over by Justice Bruno Kalemba, acquitted the girl’s grandmother, Joyce Nkhoma, when it found no evidence linking her to the murder.
The charges ranged from murder, conspiracy to murder, possession of human corpse or tissue, and extraction of human tissue.
Of the five convicts, two were convicted on all four counts and sentenced to 40 years imprisonment with hard labor each on each count.
Another two were convicted on one count, possession of human corpse, and sentenced to 40 years each.
The last convict was convicted on all four counts and sentenced to 50 years on the counts of conspiracy, possession, and extraction, and a further life imprisonment jail term on the count of murder.
The convicts are Mosten Mumba, Charles Chipeta, Kennedy Zamara, Jeremiah Nkhoma, and Rodgers Sambo.
The State was represented by Senior State Advocate Festus Sakanda from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in Lilongwe.
