GRACE CHAILE Lusaka A 27-YEAR-OLD police officer who turned a routine arrest into a deadly assault has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment with hard labour after admitting to beating a suspect to death while in custody.
“Nobody, not even police officers, are allowed to take the law into their own hands.
Investigating suspects must never come to a point where physical force is used,” said High Court Judge Mwaka Ngoma as she jailed Pythias …
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