By CHARLES MUSONDAA MAID and her lover have been sentenced to 12 years simple imprisonment and hard labour, respectively, for abducting two children belonging to her employer and stealing a motor vehicle in a failed attempt to extort K2 million ransom from the victims’ parents.Helen Banda and her on-and-off boyfriend Chilumina Kambwili were sent to jail yesterday by Lusaka Chief Resident Magistrate Dominic Makalichi after they pleaded guilty to two counts of abduction and one count of stealing a Toyota Allion belonging to the children’s parents Kumar Dahyabhai Patel and his wife Rajeshree Dharmesh Patel.Mr. Makalichi told the two convicts that what they did was “very bad, punishable by the law and we need to respect what the law provides.“You need to respect other people’s rights and there are better ways of making money other than what you did. Your action was unacceptable and you deserve severe punishment. The only punishment is to go to […]
Kidnappers jailed 12 years
