The Ndola Magistrate Court has set April 21st, 2008 as the date for the ruling in the case involving suspended MMD Copperbelt Provincial Chairman Terence Findley.
ZANIS reports that Ndola Principal Resident Magistrate Chilombo Phiri adjourned the case to April 21st for ruling and set March 28th, 2008 as the date for the defence to submit its written submissions to the court while the state will submit its submissions on April 11th, 2008.
The matter, which had came up for continued defence today, saw the defence team inform the court that there was a change in their earlier indication that they would bring to court nine witnesses.
Defence Lawyer Paulman Chungu informed the court that the defence would instead only bring two more witnesses to the court in addition to the five that it had previously brought.
And in cross-examination, one of the defence witnesses Martin Mulowa, 20, a school leaver of 26 Lewanika road, said he did not observe any injuries on Isabel Phiri during the period he offered her accommodation at his brother’s house.
When asked by the state prosecution team led by state prosecutor Mulongwa Mutakela whether he had examined Isabel’s entire body, Martin responded that he had only seen the top part of her body from the waist as she was changing her clothes.
He further said he was not there where and when it was alleged that Mr Findlay burnt Isabel with a cigarette lighter and added that he knew nothing about the pornographic DVD known as Bwaski 1.
Another witness Kaponda Mukeya 17, of house number 8 Kopa road, a pupil at St Andrews High School, testified that some time last year in June, he had offered accommodation to Isabel Phiri and her friend at his parents home after he was told that she had been chased from her parents home because she went clubbing the whole night.
Kaponda popularly known as ‘Popo’ testified that he had asked the girls to stay outside the gate and wait for his parents to sleep so that he could let them sneak inside the house.
He explained that after 21:00hours he went out and helped the girls to climb the wall fence, and that after they jumped in, dogs started barking and the girls rushed back and tried to jump but that at that point Isabel hurt herself on the hand and somewhere behind.
When cross examined Popo, who had taken the court to view the wall fence at house number 8 Kopa road, said that he did not see Isabel hurt herself as it was dark but that he saw that she had trouble climbing the wall fence and added that the following morning was when he was told that Isabel had hurt herself.
Defence Lawyer Chungu informed the court that the defence had closed its case and that it wanted to file written submissions to the court.
Mr Findlay,43, whose legal representation includes lawyers Eric Silwamba, Lawrence Matibini and Paulman Chungu, was this morning accompanied to court by Mr Chungu alone.
Mr Findlay is charged with three counts of Rape, Unlawful possession and distribution of obscene matter and Assault occasioning bodily harm.
Facts before the court are that Mr Findlay on unknown dates but between May 1, 2007 and June 2, 2007, allegedly had unlawful canal knowledge of a 16 year old named girl of Ndola.
He is further alleged to have, between the dates of May 28 and June 3 2007, unlawfully distributed obscene matter in form of a disc labelled ‘Bwaski 1’ to the same girl and that he is further on June 2, 2007 alleged to have assaulted her by burning her on the left buttock and hand with a cigarette lighter.
f@**k him out so that ,others can see that 2children can to
lead you to court.
let this chap pay fo his erections.he thought he can deep his dip stick in a small girls tank fo nothin?sought him out.give him nangu ka 10years mpaka bukaleke ukwima.
Imprison the fool. No morals at all. Ka 15yrs teti chibipe
Batila ‘kolwe ashilabengwa enda nabufyonoka’Findlay is a parent and a well knowned political figure, he would have known beforehand that the risks he took in order to have sex,distributing obscene matter and assaulting her are one of mother’s nature triumphs.Given any opportunity to have sex a man will take it and what i do know is the oldest pro is not likely to go way regardless of what the law says.Pipo in higher positions should refrain from thinking they are un touchable.Big lesson from New york governor Eliot Spitzerwho is called No9 for his sexual drive.He has lost the post and the marriageis not stable so as Findlay lost MMD Provincial chairmanship and other things that we dont know
Now this witness “Martin Mulowa” says he saw the top part of her body while she was changing her clothes? Abaice aba ukutemwa ifya kulengela lengela.
U know Findlay is a womanizer and a drunkard.Remember he is the only one to have driven his different cars at night into the kafubu river in Ndola drunk.amashamo!!!Who doesn’t know his womanizing ways at his ndola company…his friend harun who runs businesses in ndola is still in custody for murder of his girlfriend when in actual fact he’s married.Birds of the same further flock together…chikakeni pakafye chikafomonoke
That Mr Findley is guilty and should be arrested!!!The dual party cadres are too blind to see that their chair person is a bustard!!!!What hates me most is that those stupid false witnesses are in the forefront of defending the culprit.I’m sure those chaps were paid to do that-Oh my God I hate corruption.Someone should do something about this issue!!!
this guy is mad and is not fit to be moving around freely in our society other wise he will do it to another girl please cage him
You see that is a problem of putting half Zambians or Foreigners in leadership.The people who have money are the ones who are destroying our beautiful Zambia.We need to work extra hard maybe we can change things.If we don’t do anything then who will??
Mwaiche Pragmatist
When I write that your MMD party is full of thugs and lunatics,this is exactly what I mean.Are these the morons you`re counting on to lead the MMD to a landslide in 2011?Atleast TETA and some reasonable individuals have the courage to impose a suspension on this *****(Copperbelt MMD CHAIRMAN).My wish is that the wheels of justice may turn rapidly on him.Anyway he`ll soon be in the company of Mulyata,Funjika,Katele,hopefully MABENGE and the rest of the bandits you seem to passionately defend on this blog.
I don’t the testimonies of those witnesses (the last two) will help Findley.
1. The first witness claims the girl was ok and did not have any injury but later told the court he only saw her from the hip upwards – he nver examined the left buttock.
2. The second witness claims the girl got may have hurt while climbing the wall fence. I’m very sure burns are different in appearance from the kind of injury one would get from climbing or falling off a wall.
Those two chaps just wasted the courts time. Findley is going in.
Guys, mark my words, this guy will walk scot free! He has bought his way to freedom. Remember that the Law only emulates Justice but protects the rich from the poor. Out of poverty, this girl’s version of events has compromised what was to be a very good case.
Shameful situation. Why is this guy still enjoying fresh air? Take him in mukalyati. He’s not fit to walk around in society. He’s an @sshole. Raping young girls and womanising like a f#cking b%tch on heat. Where the hell does he think he is, f#cking Bangkok?
well well well you think you have it all mr auto but you just cant run away from the trueth i pray , hope , wish , trust and believe that you die in hell please you dont deserve to be among humans you think you er a die hard but you er not you er just a senceless piece of shit without morals and judgment how daer you expose your wrinceled skined public parts to inocent young girls may hell break loose on you .’ KOLOKOMBWA ‘
#12 you are dead right. Our judiciary is in I.C.U. “law in zed is like a spider’s cobweb,the weak(poor) get caught, the mighty(rich) break through”
Its possible the guy could go scot free. But his own deeds will catch up with him someday.
Now, guys lets use clean language. Mule lamfya LT.
This guy deserves death by hanging. He is not fit to life in community as he poses a great danger to the young generation. Death sentence is the only option.
I know the girls in question, and have come to know Findlay. I believe Findlay raped the girls because his past shows he is capable of such crimes.
On the other hand, the girls are useless. They try to play naughty by nature and think they are proz. I think they got want they want . Shame on Findlay and the girls. Just kill them all.
#18
U funny but anyway i agree with you to kill them all.
the whole lot of you zambian men and you young zambian girls are b’s and hoes!
Thats is history….we still enjoying life now ;-)