•TO BE DEPORTATED AFTER SAVING SENTENCE
•30 YEARS SENTENCE COMES AFTER APPEALING A 16 YEAR SENTENCE HANDED BY A LOWER COURT
High Court Judge Justice Professor Redson Kapindu has sentenced an Asian of Pakistan origin, Zaeshan Jaral Raja to a 30-year jail term for defilement and another 20 years for abduction.
The convict was appealing against an earlier sentence of a 16-year jail term by a lower court.
In 2017 he abducted a girl child and defiled her repeatedly before hiding her in a fridge when her parents and the police came to his shop.. looking for her.
Newly promoted High Court Judge, Agnes Patemba while serving as a Chief Resident Magistrate at Zomba registry, convicted and sentenced him to a 16-year jail term for defilement and 8 years for abduction which the convict appealed at the High Court.
Delivering his ruling today, Kapindu has also ordered the department of Immigration to send him back to his home country, Pakistan at the end of his custodial sentence.
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