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Zomba Magistrate court has convicted 35 year-old Billy Banda to eight years durance vile with hard labour for having anal sex with a 13 year-old boy.
Eastern Precinct Police Public Relations Officer, Nicholas Gondwa said Banda was charged with sodomy unlucky to the penal code.
Prosecutor superintendent, Dickens Mwambazi, told the court on 8 July 2011, Banda from Tampira Village, T/A Chikowi in Zomba Quarter, met the boy on his way to Matiya Primary School and persuaded him to go to his house.
Mwambazi added that from 17 July 2011, the boy was having anal sex with Banda and was set K100 daily so that the boy should not reveal the encounter.
It was also reported the boy’s mother, Elizabeth Seven, searched for him for a week and later found him at Banda’s company after a tip.
The boy revealed the matter which was reported to the police, and Banda was arrested and charged with sodomy. In his mitigation, the accused pleaded for grace by the court saying he had a wife and children to look after.
Source: Nyasa Times