A romance between a 26-year-old married bar lady of Luanshya and her 23-year-old lover has ended in tears as the two are now lead suspects in the alleged murder of the woman’s husband.
Loveness Mwansa and her boyfriend Ben Sichali, a caretaker have been picked up for questioning by police to help with investigations after Kelvin Chanda was found unconscious at home and later pronounced dead by health authorities.
Mr Chanda, unemployed is believed to have died in unclear circumstances and now his brother Ian Chanda suspects foul play.
Police however, await postmortem examination results to determine as to what could have caused the death of Mr Chanda.
Copperbelt Province Commanding Officer Sharon Zulu said police have recorded a case of suspected murder after the brother of the deceased reported the incident which occurred between July 18th and 19th this year.
“Brief facts of the matter are that on on Tuesday this week, at 07:00 hours Francis Chewe, the cousin to the deceased decided to go to the couple’s home to check on Mr Chanda and when he reached the house, he found Ms Mwana. When Mr Chewe asked for his cousin, he was told by the wife that he was still sleeping as they slept very late the previous night,” she said.
Ms Zulu said that Mr Chewe is said to have left, but that he decided to sit at a nearby shop and after some time he saw people frequenting his cousin’s house .
“When he inquired what was happening, he was told that his cousin was not alright. He then rushed there and when he entered the house, he found Mr Chanda laying unconscious on the floor in the sitting room,” she said.
She said that Mr Chewe told police that while in the house ,he saw Ben come out of his cousins bedroom and that later, Mr Chanda, the now deceased was rushed to the clinic where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
“Police have since picked up Ms Mwansa and Mr Sichali to assit with the investigations. When officers visited the scene of crime, they inspected the body thoroughly and found a black patch around the left eye of the deceased.The body has since been conveyed to Thomson District Hospital Mortuary awaiting post mortem to ascertain the actual cause of death,” she said.
(Mwebantu)