{"id":42238,"date":"2023-03-07T22:42:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T22:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/goats-land-police-officer-in-jail"},"modified":"2023-03-07T23:08:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T23:08:52","slug":"goats-land-police-officer-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/goats-land-police-officer-in-jail","title":{"rendered":"Goats land police officer in jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The First Grade Magistrate Court in Nsanje has sentenced a police officer, Richard Mpomba, to two years in prison for being found with stolen goats. The officer was found guilty of receiving stolen property contrary to section 328 of the penal code.<\/p>\n<p>State Prosecutor, Sub Inspector Victor Nachuma told the court that Mpomba committed the offense on March 29, 2022 by influencing his boys to steal goats for him.<\/p>\n<p>In his submission, Nachuma asked the court to give a stiffer punishment to Mpomba considering that he was a police officer and that he intentionally committed the crime.<\/p>\n<p>In mitigation, Mpomba through his lawyer prayed for leniency saying he was a first offender, his family depends on him and has lost his job because of the case.<\/p>\n<p>First Grade Magistrate Watson Makhanamba sentenced Mpomba, who hails from Mwendothengo Village, Traditional Authority (TA) Tengani in Nsanje, to 24 months IHL effective the date of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. The First Grade Magistrate Court in Nsanje has sentenced a police officer, Richard Mpomba, to two years in prison for being found with stolen goats. The officer was found guilty of receiving stolen property contrary to section 328 of the penal code. State Prosecutor, Sub Inspector Victor Nachuma told the court that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[233,371,234,568],"class_list":["post-42238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-miscellaneous","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Goats land police officer in jail - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The First Grade Magistrate Court in Nsanje has sentenced a police officer, Richard Mpomba, to two years in prison for be ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/goats-land-police-officer-in-jail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Goats land police officer in jail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The First Grade Magistrate Court in Nsanje has sentenced a police officer, Richard Mpomba, to two years in prison for be ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/goats-land-police-officer-in-jail\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-07T22:42:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-07T23:08:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678216384.34.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/goats-land-police-officer-in-jail#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/goats-land-police-officer-in-jail\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Goats land police officer in jail\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-07T22:42:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-07T23:08:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/goats-land-police-officer-in-jail\"},\"wordCount\":168,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/goats-land-police-officer-in-jail#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1678216384.34.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\",\"police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/goats-land-police-officer-in-jail#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/goats-land-police-officer-in-jail\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/goats-land-police-officer-in-jail\",\"name\":\"Goats land police officer in jail - 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