The Malawi Excessive Court docket in Blantyre has jailed a aged police officer to 30 years imprisonment for raping an adolescent under custody in a police cell.

Mediate justice Vikochi Chima Tuesday sentenced the erstwhile police officer Andrew Chagaga to 360 months in jail with laborious labour for forcing himself on a 17-year-aged university pupil.

Chagaga, who the Excessive Court docket described him as an axis of defective, dedicated the crime in December 2020 whereas serving as a police officer in Malawi’s commercial city of Blantyre.

The aged policeman used to be arrested after the victimised younger lady reported the incident to police.

Limbe First Grade Justice of the Peace Court docket came at some stage in Chagaga guilty of the complete expenses levelled against him and which ability that convicted him accordingly.

Presiding First Grade Justice of the Peace, Soka Banda dominated that the case needs to be dedicated to Excessive Court docket after the hiss made an application looking out for that the convicted Police officer be dedicated to the Excessive Court docket for sentencing.

Chagaga who used to be convicted of raping a girl twice in police custody used to be remanded at Chichiri Penal advanced whereas staring at for the Excessive Court docket to hand him a befitting sentence.

In the the hiss is being represented by Trevor Mphalale, Ruth Kaima and Chikondi Chijozi from the Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) and Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC).

Ruth Kaima prosecuting prayed to the Excessive Court docket give Chagaga a stiffer sentence to aid as a deterrent to the society.

The girl used to be arrested in December last year in Limbe over idle and disorderly charge and he or she used to be taken to the Police Situation where Chigaga, who used to be the Custody Officer on responsibility, raped her twice before releasing her.