{"id":68377,"date":"2018-07-16T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T07:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=68377"},"modified":"2018-07-16T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T07:50:05","slug":"two-years-ihl-for-insulting-albino-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/16\/two-years-ihl-for-insulting-albino-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"Two years IHL for insulting albino wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY AUDREY KAPALAMULA:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Court has sentenced 28-year-old Amos Musonkho to 24 months imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) for uttering intimidating and insulting words to his wife with albinism.<\/p>\n<p>Central Region Police deputy spokesperson, Jessica Mphasa, Sunday said Musonkho has been convicted for describing his wife as a \u201cdeal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mphasa said the court, through State prosecutor Patricio Philimon, heard that in April 2018, the convict went home with a Mozambican friend and, in their conversation, referred the wife to as the \u201cwanted deal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShockingly, the wife heard her husband telling his companion that \u2018katundu uja ndi ameneyu [behold, the deal]\u2019 in reference to her,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that, later in the same month, the wife heard the husband speaking on the phone and telling someone that everything had been finalised and that, the following night, the deal could materialise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wife felt insecure and instantly rushed to Kanengo Police Station. The police arrested the husband five days later as he went missing.<\/p>\n<p>He was then charged with intimidation, which is contrary to Section 88 subsections 1(a) of the Penal Code, and use of insulting words, contrary to Section 182 of the Penal Code,\u201d Mphasa said.<\/p>\n<p>When Musonkho appeared before the court, Mphasa said the State prayed for stiff punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Passing the sentence, Senior Resident Magistrate Shyreen Yona found the words intimidating and insulting.<\/p>\n<p>Yona has since convicted Msonkho to 24 months IHL.<\/p>\n<p>Musonkho comes from M\u2019biza Village, Traditional Authority Chikumbu, in Mulanje District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY AUDREY KAPALAMULA: The Lilongwe Senior Resident Magistrate Court has sentenced 28-year-old Amos Musonkho to 24 months imprisonment with hard labour (IHL) for uttering intimidating and insulting words to his wife with albinism. Central Region Police deputy spokesperson, Jessica Mphasa, Sunday said Musonkho has been convicted for describing his wife as a \u201cdeal\u201d. Mphasa said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68377","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\/68377","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=68377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68382,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68377\/revisions\/68382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}