By ALICE NACHILEMBE
A-22-year-old Woman of Chingola’s Chiwepala area has been detainted by police to help with investigation in the murder of her husband.
The case of a suspected Murder was reported on August 11, 2023 as Suicide.
Copperbelt Police Commissioner Peacewell Mweemba said the victim Jackson Kaonga 29 is suspected to have committed suicide using a string of Chitenge wrapper in his one roomed cabin and died.
Mr Mweemba said a postmortem was conducted on August 16, 2023 around 10:00 hours and preliminary findings from the Pathologist who conducted the postmortem are that the victim died due to head injuries and blunt object was used to hit him on the forehead.
He said brief facts are that on August 10, 2023 around 2200 hours, the couple went to sleep and the victim never shared anything to the wife.
“On August 11, 2023 at about 04:00 hours the wife reported to the family members who also resides in the same yard that his husband hanged himself whilst she was sleeping and that she heard an object fall while in deep sleep. When she woke up the husband lay dead on the floor with a rope on his neck,” he said.
Mr Mweemba said preliminary Doctors findings, the wife, Chanda Teresa 22, has since been detained in police custody to assist police with investigations.
Docket of suspected murder has since been opened
