Mzuzu Police Station Spokesperson Sergeant Maurice Chapola confirmed the death of Bertha Mwamulika Banda of Kankhomba village, Traditional Authority Kanyenda in Nkhotakota District.
In October 2012, Police in Mzuzu also found the dead body of another 22 year old Commercial Sex Worker at Thandeka Rest House at the same Old Town.
Police then arrested 40 year old Staff Sergeant at Moyale Barracks Symon Msowoya on allegations that he strangled the sex worker. Msowoya is currently on bail pending trial but is back to work.
According to Chapola, the woman complained of body pains in the early hours of 1st February 2013 but her friends later saw her at the pub’s counter taking beer in the company of a man believed to be her boy friend.
“It is alleged that…later she disappeared with the man… to Room number one where she was found lying dead the next morning. The identity of the man who was last seen with her is yet to be established,”Chapola said.
Barely 4 days after the tragic death of a 22- year- old commercial sex worker in Mzuzu, police arrested a 40- year- old Staff Sergeant Symon Msowoya of Moyale Barracks on Friday in connection with the death of a commercial sex worker who was found lying dead in a room of Thandeka rest house at Mzuzu old town.
Mzuzu Police spokesperson Sergeant Maurice Chapola said the deceased, Brenda Chumbi of Balamu Village in the area of Traditional Authority Chakhumbira in Ntcheu district, was discovered lying dead on the eve of Mother`s Day by a watchman, who went to collect the keys for the room.
Chapola further said when police visited the scene, they saw some scratches on the neck of the deceased and blood was oozing from the nose while the head board of the only bed in the room was dismantled. This prompted the police to suspect foul plays on the matter.
The dead body was later taken to Mzuzu Central Hospital for post-mortem where it was discovered that she died of strangulation.
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