Evangelist Shadreck Wame’s Houseboy assassin gets life imprisonment sentence

SALIMA-(MaraviPost)-The High Court judge Essimy Chombo on Wednesday in the lakeshore district of Salima sentenced Limbani Maliro to life imprisonment with hard labour for being found guilty to murdering popular evangelist Shadreck Wame.

Judge Chomobo made the ruling after Maliro, a houseboy to the evangelist pleaded to the charges of murder that carries a maximum of death sentence in Malawi but there is a moratorium on the punishment.

The convict on Monday confessed to court of murdering the late Wame thinking that the later had wealth which he could amass very easily after the killing.

Maliro was arrested by the police in Thyolo on November 25, 2016 after being hunted for a month.

Lloyd M’bwana

I’m a Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resource (LUANAR)’s Environmental Science graduate (Malawi) and UK’s ICM Journalism and Media studies scholar. Also University of Malawi (UNIMA) Library Science Scholar. I have been The Malawi Country Manager and duty editor for the Maravi Post since 2019. My duty editor’s job is to ensure that the news is covered properly, that it is delivered on time, and that it is created to the standards set out in the editorial guidelines of the Maravi Post.