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Kills Hubby In Self Defence
By Monica Kunda
A housewife of APG Compound is suspected to have killed her husband when she
squeezed his private parts in self-defence.
This came to light when Joyce Mubonda, mother to the accused, reported the
matter to Mongu Legal Advice Centre.
Mubonda said her daughter Lishondo Muyendwa of Mabumbu village in Kalabo was
married to Jones Muyendwa of the same town. On August 4, 2002 Jones came
home from a drinking spree and asked for sex from his wife.
Lishondo, who by then had a three month old baby, denied her husband sex. A
fight then ensued between the two as Jones tried to force himself on his
wife. Lishondo then took hold of his testicles and squeezed them so that he
could leave her alone. To her surprise Jones died.
When she realised that he was dead, she rushed to her neighbour's house and
requested for help. Lishondo in the company of her neighbours went to report
the matter to the police.
At the police station, the woman was arrested and detained together with her
three month old baby. She was charged with murder and is remanded at Mongu
Central Prison.
Mubonda told Joe Mulafulafu, the paralegal officer at the centre, that her
daughter told her that on four consecutive days her husband had been coming
late from his drinking spree and beat her when she refused to have sex with
him.
She also told her that she had been refusing to have sex with him because
she has a three months baby whose health could not be put at risk if she
consented.
Mulafulafu advised the woman that murder is not a bailable offence and that
the Foundation could be of little help to her. |
