She trapped me, cries covicted rapist

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She trapped me, cries covicted rapist

A TWENTY-seven year old man of Lusaka’s Ng’ombe Township has gone to prison with one final word to the judge, “she trapped me!”.

Condemned to jail for two long years, Mathews Mtonga during mitigation in Lusaka Magistrates Court stuck to his guns proclaiming before the law that he was no sexual predator or rapist but that the woman, three years older than him, that he is accused of attempting to rape cooked the story to cover herself to her husband after neighbours caught them in a compromising position.

In this case, Mtonga was jailed despite telling the court that, he and the woman in question, met at a bar and opted to have sex at the woman’s home as the husband was confined to police cells.

By his account, unfortunately as they were about to put skin-to-skin, nosy neighbours popped up. To cover herself, the woman let out a mother of screams and other theatrics claiming she was about to be raped and apprehended Mtonga whom they handed over to the police.

As for the 30-year old woman, she alleged that on the material day, her husband had assaulted her and she reported to Ng’ombe Police Station.

However, the police answered with their usual ’tilibe transport’ (we don’t have transport) line and asked her to catch the abusive husband herself and bring him to the station.

In her narration, the woman alleged that it was at that time that somehow she opted to engage a stranger and non-police officer Mtonga who apprehended the husband and took him to police.

The bizarre tale goes further that later, as they returned from depositing the husband in cells, Good Samaritan Mtonga turned into a monster and demanded for sex, and when his advances were rejected, he attempted to force himself on her hence her screams and neighbours intervening.

Faced with two equally interesting narration of events leading to the scream session, Magistrate Idah Phiri concluded that was sufficient evidence against to Mtonga and subsequently condemned him to a 24-month stay in prison.

In her judgement magistrate Phiri noted that cases relating to sexual assault were on the rise and jailing Mtonga would sound a warning to would be offenders.

Kalemba

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