Wed, 14 Dec 2016 11:40:52 +0000 POLICE in Lusaka have defended its action to abandon the decomposed body of an eight-year-old girl suspected to have been defiled and strangled by unknown criminals in Meanwood housing area, claiming they failed to secure a magistrate to sign the postmortem order forms to allow the pathologist to conduct a postmortem. Some villagers in Vorna Valley were last week angered by the decision by the Zambia Police Service not to pick the body of the girl which had been left for two days covered in a Chitenge material in the bush as relatives waited for the police to arrange for a pathologist to conduct a postmortem on site. The body was later examined by a doctor and buried. Lusaka Province Police Commissioner Nelson Phiri said it was impossible for the police to conduct postmortem last Friday, the day the body was discovered, because the police had failed to […]
