Police in Kapiri Mposhi have arrested a woman aged 32 of Kampongwe in Kapiri Mposhi for allegedly murdering her husband.
The deceased who has been identified as Oliva Kalangwe aged 34 also of Kampongwe area was initially assaulted by his wife on 26th February, 2017 at about 20 00 hours and he reported the matter to police.
The wife is reported to have used a pointed high heeled shoe to hit the victim and he sustained deep injuries in the head and fore head.
He was issued with a Police medical report form but he did not get back to police.
His condition later became serious on 1st March, 2017 at 1900 hours and relatives rushed him to hospital in Kapiri mposhi where he was hospitalised.
He later died on 09th March, 2017 at 20 00 hours.
Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo confirmed the incident in a statement.
“Today in the morning Police then received information from concerned members of the public that some family members were intending to conceal the death of the victim as they were making arrangement to burry the corpse today,” Ms Katongo said.
She added, “This was when officers went to the area and arrested the suspect identified as Ines Malata who is currently detained in police custody. The body is in the Kapiri Mposhi hospital awaiting postmoterm tomorrow.”
They had a minute of silence for women who where killed by men on women’s day. These women are hypocrites. They’ve? killed more men themselves.
This shouldn’t be headline news.
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For those who dont high healedshoe, it is sukuna.
Don’t rush into marriage. Just get sexual satisfaction and move on. You will be happier.
Whats wrong with these hospitals do they not reports any suspicious injuries and GBH injuries immediately to the Police…the relatives could buried the victim.
Another one bites the dust. Stop abusing women, they have weapons to fight back!
Women getting sophisticated everyday. I thought its only the kitchen which was dangerous for us men
Insapato ka! RIP. Today is high heeled shoes. Yesterday was knives. Women awe sure!
Inkokolo nakale nakale has been a defence weapon for women. The young man should have known better not to get into an altercation with a woman uufwele nkokolo.
Kafikepo bwino mune.
Cavernous sinus septic thrombosis is a lethal condition if left untreated. Penetrating trauma to the face especially on th forehead/ root of nose ( so called danger area of the face) from a dirty object like the heel of a shoe ends up getting septic. The infection spreads to the sphenoidal sinus, cavernous sinus, cerebral sinus causing septic thrombi. Much as this poor woman is involved in the initial injury, she is certainly not the direct cause here. The medical personnel had 9 days to treat this infection and decided not to. Why is the police letting them go Scott free? Just asking
The wife caused bodily harm but the medical profession failed the man. This is Zambia today, nobody cares.
Medical personnel in government institutions are working under difficult conditions. They are like soldiers without ammunition. I had the rude shock when I was the patient in the government hospital – no IV antibiotics, no injectable pain killers but very dedicated medics. Fortunately, I could afford to get my family members to rush into town with the doctor’s prescription and get me something to save my miserable situation. It is also great if you have an employer who gives you cover to be able to get to private hospitals – you may not feel the pinch and realize the pain others have to go through. This poor fellow probably was in a similar situation and unfortunately had no means to get what was needed! Unfortunately again, it is the poor health worker who is blamed for government’s…
Unfortunately again, it is the poor health worker who is blamed for government’s failures! Government thinks the buildings treat patients! The worst case scenario in Zambia is to be in a terrible accident on a holiday or weekend. It’s almost a sure death sentence. Drive carefully. Be nice to the ladies. Good luck!
@ The Real Quest. Spot on and we thank God for your escape. What we need is to form an active and vigilant civil society. Doctors, lawyers and other professionals ready to offer their services if need be free of charge in taking up cases like this. Regulatory bodies should also come in, the Zambia Medical Association, the Law Association of Zambia etc. Sue the hospital, the health minister and any involved negligent provider.But alas, all they think is that their mandate ends at politics,,,, joining in silly concourt cases about Lungu’s 3rd term. It’s really sad for the common uneducated man in Zambia. No civil or legal support systems. What a country!
So why isn’t this a subdural haematoma??
The pseudoeducated like you are misleading the ignorant
Spot on Webman! The reason things don’t change in this country is because citizens have neglected their duty of holding their leaders accountable for such short-comings. The sad reality is it will take another generation to change things.
By Ian Aikenhead, Q.C.
One of the principles of personal injury law is that the persona who caused the injury must take the victim as he finds him (Dulieu v. White, [1901] 2 K.B. 669 at 679 (D.C.)):
If a man is negligently run over or otherwise negligently injured in his body, it is no answer to the sufferer’s claim for damages that he would have suffered less injury, or no injury at all, if he had not had an unusually thin skull or an unusually weak heart.
It is important to distinguish between causation as the source of the loss and the rules of damage assessment in tort. The rules of causation consider generally whether “but for” the defendant’s acts, the plaintiff’s damages would have been incurred on a balance of probabilities. Even though there may be several tortious and non-tortious causes of injury, so long as the defendant’s act is a cause of the plaintiff’s damages, the defendant is fully liable for that damage. The rules of damages then consider what the original position of the plaintiff would have been. The governing principle is that the defendant need not put the plaintiff in a better position than his original position and should not compensate the plaintiff for any damages he would have suffered anyway
The question to deal with then is: would have the victim suffered and died from the prescribed condition had he not been injured by a pointed shoe “Skuna” or not? The answer to that can be left to the court of law to determine from the facts which will be presented.
Another soul lost. Am sure women are celebrating that they too are now being heard through these vicious acts. Men are now victime.
One wonders what these women were celebrating the other day, women’s killing day? They have killed more men in the last 12 months. What is wrong with just divorcing if you cannot get along? We have cheapened life like child’s play, shame.
One needs to find out the whole truth behind this before making a judgement! Maybe the husband was abusive, maybe the husband was beating the wife and children and the wife acted in self defence?
There are always 2 sides to a story!
As far as I know a lot of these cases are started by the men very, very rarely is it a woman that is the cause of domestic violence! That is thr truth!
And so if they were abusive we can justify their being killed. In other words it is okay to kill abusive people? Is that the message here?
Divorce or get killed.
Why marry to get divorced? If you don’t want to have all this 50:50 wars with your wife, the best solution is just go into an agreement with a woman to have a child, but no staying together.
@2020 vision doesn’t matter ever a man was wrong or not u can kill a person coz of marital problems ,when u see things are not ok get rid of him or her than finishing someone’s life. Rip
A mad woman is worse than a chibuku-head husband.
Using a shoe, I doubt the intention was to kill
@Faluja nio:
What the fuc.k is wrong with you Ars.ewhore!! The intention doesn’t matter BUT the FACT is that she killed. You mother fuc.ker!!!
I don’t know where we going in this world. Marriage is supposed to be enjoyed not a fighting club. Useless lady! Nyini!
Trauma will remain part of our existence. This is not the last case of its kind. Sadly in Zambia, we get to know the diagnosis at postmortem! We are still using guess work to know the exact diagnosis. It is sad to see our little doctors arguing as to what the exact problem is. In court, the judge wants objective evidence to decide cases. Expert / Specialist opinion is not good enough unless coupled with solid diagnostic / imaging proof. We therefore need to invest in more advanced diagnostics and imaging essentials. For medico-legal reasons, our friends in advanced worlds have invested heavily in whole body scans and human resource. A good example is the number of Radiologists we have in Zambia. Only one. Tanzania has over 60 Radiologists. What a shame!!
Marriage sucks. I m better off alone. I miss and crave my solitude
I don’t condone violence of any kind but the truth of the matter is that more women have suffered domestic violence at the hands of their hubbies. And many have died. Worse, so many men have gotten away with it. These women “murderer” stories are making headlines because it is unusual that the so called “female weakling” can cause harm and even death. Can someone please share real figures of domestic violence, indicate where it has resulted in some kind of disability or death, be it perpetuated by male or female. We know that more women have suffered in silence or have died and justice has been denied….. now the bully wants to claim to be the victim?
Life under pf. Before couples would fight and just beat each other but now under these tough conditions under pf people are so short tempered they aim to kill. We can only blame the illegal government
As usual. When I thought the debates here were mature and I was enjoying this politician has spoilt my day with the political rhetoric. Yaba
Why read my comments. Ushe nakuforcinga kubelenga comment yanga kikik
A shoe is not a weapon or designed to be used as a weapon. It is likely the charge will be changed from murder to a lesser case of manslaughter. If a gun, knife or similar item was used, the charge of murder was inevitable. Even so, a precious life has been lost.
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WALYA KAKE ALIYE MULANDU, SO WHO KILLS A LOVER HAS NO CASE SINCE THEY WERE ONE , WHEN PIPO MARRY BECOME ONE, NOW IF YOU REMOVE OR CUT YOUR OWN FINGER USHE NIMULANDU , I REMOVE BY MYSELF THEN NIMULANDU. NO NO..WALYA KAKE ALIYE MULANDU