A Bus conductor, Davison Hanseko, who broke into former Court of Appeal President Fulgency Chisanga’s chambers and stole therein a pressing iron worth K1,100, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment with hard labour after being convicted on nine counts of breaking into a building and committing a felony.
The court has, however, sentenced his co-accused, among them his brother Franco and Aaron Zulu to four years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing two monitors at the National Registration Office all valued at K 6,000.
In passing judgement, Magistrate Trevor Kasanda says all the convicts deserved leniency as first offenders who readily pleaded guilty to all the charges.
Magistrate Kasanda however says he needed to impose stiff punishment to deter would be offenders.
The magistrate noted that Davison Hanseko broke into nine different institutions and stole various properties which were used by the affected institutions to execute services to the public.
According to the magistrate, the convicts’ actions were very serious and disrupted the services offered by the affected institutions.
In this matter, the three convicts broke into the Department of National Registration, Passport and Citizenship, Madison Life Insurance, Micro Finance Limited and Zambezi River Authority, going away with various items worth thousands of kwacha.
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By Darius Choonya