Man bags 18 months imprisonment for calling Police officer 'vampire'
28 year old James Linyada has been convicted and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour for proposing violence by a Blantyre Third Grade Magistrate Court in southern Malawi.
Linyada was arrested on October 20 after he stopped a female Police Constable Happy Kwisongole who
was going home from work, and called her a 'bloodsucker' which made
people carry various weapons such as stones, sticks and burglar bars
ready to deal with the officer.
It took the intervention of her landlord who pleaded with the crowd
to disperse as the lady was not a blood sucker but a Police officer at
Kabula.
Linyada pleaded guilty to the charge of
proposing violence contrary to section 87 (1)(a) of the penal code.
Passing the sentence Third Grade Magistrate Catherine Magwira said
though the accused was a first offender, the offence he committed is
serious.
"His behavior was very bad. He wanted
the angry people to take away the life of an innocent police officer.
She said the court could not condone such bad behaviour within the
society. It is for this reason that the accused should be given a
custodial sentence to remove him from the society so that people should
live in peace," Magwira said.
The magistrate then sentenced Linyada to 18 months imprisonment with hard labour without an option of a fine.
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