{"id":56984,"date":"2024-01-19T21:15:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chisale-charged-in-court"},"modified":"2024-01-19T21:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T21:28:05","slug":"chisale-charged-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chisale-charged-in-court","title":{"rendered":"Chisale charged in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Former presidential bodyguard Norman Chisale appeared before the magistrate\u2019s court in Lilongwe today following his arrest on Tuesday. Chisale, the former bodyguard of former President Peter Mutharika, was arrested on Monday and today he was taken before the Lilongwe Principal Resident Magistrate (PRM) court.<\/p>\n<p>State prosecutor Prescort Mwayiuliro said Chisale will be answering charges relating to use of insulting language, intimidation, and obstructing justice. Chisale pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Resident Magistrate Roderick Michongwe has since adjourned the case to tomorrow morning, when he is expected to give his ruling on a bail application.<\/p>\n<p>Defense counsel Stanley Chirwa said \u201cit is in the best interest of justice\u201d for his client to be released from police custody. Police say they arrested Chisale because he allegedly insulted and intimidated public officers during a television interview.<\/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. Former presidential bodyguard Norman Chisale appeared before the magistrate\u2019s court in Lilongwe today following his arrest on Tuesday. Chisale, the former bodyguard of former President Peter Mutharika, was arrested on Monday and today he was taken before the Lilongwe Principal Resident Magistrate (PRM) court. State prosecutor Prescort Mwayiuliro said Chisale will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":56983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-56984","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"],"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>Chisale charged in court - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former presidential bodyguard Norman Chisale appeared before the magistrate\u2019s court in Lilongwe today following his arre ...\" \/>\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\/chisale-charged-in-court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chisale charged in court\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former presidential bodyguard Norman Chisale appeared before the magistrate\u2019s court in Lilongwe today following his arre ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chisale-charged-in-court\" \/>\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=\"2024-01-19T21:15:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-19T21:28:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2024\/01\/sm_1705686879.734866.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"809\" \/>\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\/chisale-charged-in-court#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chisale-charged-in-court\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Chisale charged in court\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-19T21:15:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-19T21:28:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chisale-charged-in-court\"},\"wordCount\":152,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chisale-charged-in-court#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2024\/01\/sm_1705686879.734866.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"miscellaneous\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chisale-charged-in-court#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chisale-charged-in-court\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/chisale-charged-in-court\",\"name\":\"Chisale charged in court - 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