By GRACE CHAILE-LESOETSATHE Court of Appeal has upheld a life sentence slapped on a Lusaka accountant for sodmising his five-year-old nephew.Victor Mulungwe, 42, was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour for a charge of unnatural offences last year by the Lusaka High court judge, Elita Mwikisa.Facts are that Mulungwe on November 27, 2014, sexually abused his nephew against the order of nature. He pleaded not guilty to the charge.He however, appealed against both his conviction and the sentence imposed on him.Mulungwe’s grounds of appeal was that the charge he was facing, was not proved beyond reasonable doubt.And that the sentencing judge failed to give him credit for being a first offender, when she imposed the maximum sentence.His lawyer argued that the finding of the boy in his house was nothing unusual and could not have amounted to ‘something more’ as the convict was the uncle.The defence team therefore stated that it should not, in […]
Court of Appeal upholds defiler uncle’s conviction, sentence
