MALAWI: KILLER OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH ALBINISM SENTENCED TO DEATH
June 10, 2019: Malawi’s high court on 7 June 2019 sentenced to death a man who murdered a young albino. Willard Mikaele, then 28, was convicted of killing 19-year-old Mphatso Pensulo in the southern district of Thyolo in 2017. “He planned to kill an albino so as to get rich fast as advised by the herbalist,” judge Maclean Kamwambe said in handing down the sentence in Thyolo. “It has been reiterated that there will be times when death sentence shall be unavoidable due to the circumstances and that it should be reserved for such occasions,” the judge said. (Sources: zambianobserver.com, 08/06/2019)
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