By Lucy PhiriA COUPLE of Lusaka’s Chelstone area has been sentenced to twelve months imprisonment for trafficking in 5.6kg of Cannabis with no lawful authority.Sylvester Mutale and Charity Bota pleaded guilty to the charge and begged the court to pardon them as they had learnt their lesson in prison.The couple said they had little children at home and that there was no one to take care of them.Bota begged the court whilst crying loudly saying she will never sell drugs again and that at least one of them should be pardoned.“I don’t know where my children are, and no one can keep them for me, please may the court at least pardon one of us,” she lamented.Meanwhile her husband, Mulenga pleaded with the court to at least pardon his wife and jail him instead.“I Am asking this court to let my wife go home and jail me on her behalf. I Am ready to sacrifice […]
Couple goes in 12 months for trafficking
