Africa-Press – Zambia. The love for an average performing English Premier League side, Manchester United, has cost a constable of Lusaka Central Police Station his freedom as his superiors have locked him up together with other criminal suspects in police cells.
Events leading to the cop’s misfortune are that two criminals, Ishmael Kazembe aged 27 and his yet-to-be identified accomplice, broke into a home in Kamwala South armed with a machete and held a family hostage demanding K20,000.
However, after distracting the criminal duo with a meagre K1000, the family overpowered Kazembe and administered upon his body serious panel beating which rearranged his face while his colleague fled with the hundred kwacha notes.
Police sources narrated to Kalemba how their fellow officer found himself in trouble. According to the sources, Kazembe was so badly beaten that instead of being put in cells, he was admitted to the University Teaching Hospital and the Man United cop assigned to guard him.
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