{"id":52232,"date":"2017-08-23T09:42:55","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T07:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=52232"},"modified":"2017-08-23T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T07:42:55","slug":"police-arrest-murder-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/08\/23\/police-arrest-murder-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest murder suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>P<\/strong>olice in Thyolo District on Monday arrested 35-year-old Arthur Mdala, who is suspected to have stabbed his former girlfriend to death in Lilongwe on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in Chilinde Township when the suspect visited his ex-girlfriend Mirriam Siula.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that the suspect asked the victim to go and fetch drinking water for him. When she came back, the suspect stabbed the woman on the forehead and the chest.<\/p>\n<p>After the incident, he fled and police had been hunting for him.<\/p>\n<p>Lilongwe Police spokesperson Kingsley Dandaula has confirmed that the suspect was on the police wanted list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been tirelessly hunting for the suspect and we sent messages asking for people in the country to give us a tip-off wherever they see the suspect. Following the move, we heard from our colleagues in Thyolo District that they are keeping him in custody after villagers tipped them off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice at Goliati Unit managed to arrest him [Mdala] on Monday. As I am speaking, Kawale Police [officers] are on their way to Thyolo District to get him so that he should answer charges of murder here in Lilongwe,\u201d Dandaula said.<\/p>\n<p>The crime attracted a lot of attention on social media with people describing it as gruesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Thyolo District on Monday arrested 35-year-old Arthur Mdala, who is suspected to have stabbed his former girlfriend to death in Lilongwe on Saturday. The incident happened in Chilinde Township when the suspect visited his ex-girlfriend Mirriam Siula. It is said that the suspect asked the victim to go and fetch drinking water for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52237,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52232\/revisions\/52237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}