The Malawi Excessive Court in Blantyre has jailed a previous police officer to 30 years imprisonment for raping a little bit one beneath custody in a police cell.

Mediate justice Vikochi Chima Tuesday sentenced the erstwhile police officer Andrew Chagaga to 360 months in prison with hard labour for forcing himself on a 17-year-weak university student.

Chagaga, who the Excessive Court described him as an axis of contaminated, committed the crime in December 2020 whereas serving as a police officer in Malawi’s industrial city of Blantyre.

The previous policeman used to be arrested after the victimised younger girl reported the incident to police.

Limbe First Grade Justice of the Peace Court came upon Chagaga responsible of the general bills levelled in opposition to him and in consequence convicted him accordingly.

Presiding First Grade Justice of the Peace, Soka Banda dominated that the case can also serene be committed to Excessive Court after the instruct made an software searching for that the convicted Police officer be committed to the Excessive Court for sentencing.

Chagaga who used to be convicted of raping a lady twice in police custody used to be remanded at Chichiri Detention middle whereas looking ahead to the Excessive Court at hand him a befitting sentence.

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

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

The girl used to be arrested in December final year in Limbe over idle and disorderly fee and he or she used to be taken to the Police Location where Chigaga, who used to be the Custody Officer on responsibility, raped her twice earlier than releasing her.