Police at Nathenje in Lilongwe are investigating the murder of Boniface Nelson, 22, whose body was found dumped in his mother’s maize garden at Mbalame Village, Traditional Authority Mazengera.

According to Lilongwe Police Public Relations Officer Inspector Hastings Chigalu, Nelson, a Form 4 student at Chigodi Community Day Secondary School, went missing on April 25 after being sent from a soya field to collect food and utensils.

His body was discovered on April 27 with signs of assault and strangulation.

A postmortem found that he died from head injuries caused by a blunt object.

Police say investigations are continuing to trace those responsible.

Two of three men who robbed a businessman of a motorcycle, K1.1 million, and a cellphone in Namitete on February 22, 2026, have been arrested following a serious road accident while fleeing.

Lilongwe Police Publicist, Inspector Hastings Chigalu, said the suspects, Willard Thauzeni and Jafali Kalipande, first collided with a cyclist carrying charcoal and later with a Honda Freed vehicle.

Kalipande sustained a broken leg and is currently admitted at Kamuzu Central Hospital, while Thauzeni suffered minor injuries.

The third suspect, Samuel Njiratenga, also injured in the incident, remains at large.

Inspector Chigalu added that police have recovered all the stolen items and plan to charge the arrested suspects with robbery once they are medically cleared.

Lilongwe police have arrested two men in connection with the killing of a security guard at Tsoka Market following a dispute over money.

Police spokesperson Hastings Chigalu identified the suspects as Maxwell Gwedemula and Chikumbutso Fulailo. The incident occurred on Tuesday, January 13, 2026.

According to police, the victim, Lloyd Tsosa, had received K4,000 from his employer to purchase a raincoat when the two suspects, who also worked for the same employer, began mocking him over the amount. The exchange reportedly escalated into a physical confrontation.

During the altercation, Gwedemula allegedly stabbed Tsosa multiple times in the stomach, head and chest, causing fatal injuries. Tsosa died at the scene.

Police say investigations are ongoing and the suspects will appear in court in due course.

Four individuals have been arrested in connection with the violent vandalism of the newly constructed Chisiyo Police Unit in Lilongwe and the torching of two police vehicles.

Lilongwe Police spokesperson Hastings Chigalu confirmed the arrests and stated that more suspects are expected to be apprehended as investigations continue.

The chaos erupted after two dead bodies, believed to be a Kabaza (motorcycle taxi) operator and a passenger, were discovered in the area, allegedly killed by two men.

Angry residents initially handed over a suspect to police, but tensions escalated when a mob, mostly made up of Kabaza operators, returned demanding the suspect be released into their custody.

Chigalu said the suspect had already been transferred to Lilongwe Police Station for safety, prompting the mob to retaliate violently.

During the unrest, the mob vandalized the police unit, torched two vehicles that had been impounded by traffic police, and looted property including electric wires and computers.

The police also reported damage to the water system at the station.

Authorities say investigations are still underway, and additional arrests are likely.

Police in Area 3, Lilongwe, have arrested a woman for allegedly stealing 25 kilograms of flour from Bwaila Hospital.

Lilongwe Police spokesperson, Inspector Hastings Chigalu, identified the suspect as 39-year-old Talita Mkuwazi.

According to police, the incident happened yesterday in the hospital’s patient waiting area. The woman pretended to be seeking dental treatment, but instead went into the kitchen, packed flour from storage bins into a bag, and attempted to leave the facility.

Security guards stopped her for a search and discovered the stolen flour. At the time, other patients had already started complaining about a shortage.

Police have since returned the flour to the rightful owners, and the suspect is expected to appear in court soon to answer charges of theft.

Police in Lilongwe have arrested 38-year-old Grant Mpasu, who is suspected of cutting copper wires that supplied oxygen to a premature baby ward and a recovering mother at Bwaila Hospital.

According to Lilongwe police spokesperson Hastings Chigalu, the suspect allegedly committed the act on March 21, resulting in an oxygen supply failure that led to the suffocation and death of seven infants.

Chigalu stated that on the night of the incident, a night-shift nurse encountered Mpasu and questioned him, but he refused to respond, prompting the nurse to alert security personnel.

Upon investigation, security officers apprehended Mpasu and led them to the hospital’s roof, where they discovered his bag containing the stolen copper wires.

Hospital officials confirmed that Mpasu was an electrician working for a company that had recently repaired the oxygen pipeline supplying the ward for newborns and recovering mothers.

The police in Lilongwe have arrested two men on suspicion of being part of a group of thieves who stole K7 million and a security guard’s gun at Malembo’s Admarc in Kasiya.

The Lilongwe police spokesperson, Hastings Chigalu, has said that they believe that these criminals did this on the night of January 29 this year.

Maupo Chamemera (38) and Innocent Banda (29),

Along with five accomplices who are still being hunted, they are believed to have tied up the security guard and taken the money box.

Mr. Chigalu said that their investigation has caught the two who admitted that they did this, and led the police to Malembo’s cemetery where the thief hid the gun.

The police are currently searching for the other suspects and trying to recover the stolen money.

Mr Chalemera is from Salamba T/A Chiwaula village in Lilongwe, while Mr Banda is from T/A Makwangwala in Ntcheu.

Lilongwe Police has arrested Damiano Nkhoma, 42, for duping a certain Magistrate of K400 thousand on the pretext that he was a property agent who had secured him a house for rent in the Capital.

According to Lilongwe Police Spokesperson Inspector Hastings Chigalu in July last year when the victim was transfer listed to work at Lilongwe Magistrate court, he contacted Nkhoma after coming across the suspect’s details on Facebook that he was a property agent based in the capital city.

A few days later, the suspect told the Magistrate that he was free to move his family to Lilongwe, lying that he [suspect] had secured a house for the victim’s accommodation in Area 49.

Chigalu narrated that however, he asked the Magistrate to first send K250 thousand meant for rentals, K100 thousand as agent fee, and K50 thousand for other logistics.

“Little did the Magistrate know that he was releasing rental fees to a phone contact of the suspect’s fellow trickster who posed as a landlord of the apartment Nkhoma claimed to have secured”

“When the victim and his family arrived in Lilongwe with a loaded truck of household property, both the suspect’s, and the so called landlord’s phones could not be reached. The development rendered the victim helpless which forced the family to seek temporary shelter at their relations’ house in town”, said Chigalu.

Since the incident in July last year, the two con men have been on the run, only for the first suspect to be nabbed on Friday.

Interestingly, when detectives asked the suspect if he knew in advance that the person he duped is a court Magistrate, he said he was well aware since they first introduced to each other.

Meanwhile, Area 3 Police detectives are still hunting for the other suspect.

Damiano Nkhoma is expected to appear in court next week to answer a case of Fraud Other Than False Pretenses.

Police in Lilongwe have recovered six plasma screens among other items, valued at K5 million, and arrested three robbery and theft suspects at Zankutu and Chiuzila locations on Monday, 11 November 2024.

Lilongwe Police Station Public Relations Officer Inspector Hastings Chigalu said the suspects have been identified as Chisomo Samu, 23, Chikondi Dzonzi, 18, and Stain Mpinda, 31.

On Monday at around 03:00 hours, Chisomo and Chikondi, broke into a certain shop at Kaphiri location where they stole a plasma screen, a bicycle, speaker and amplifier.

However, the station’s detectives intercepted the suspects at Bypass, Zankutu location at around 05:00 hours same day while offering the items for sale.

Again on the same day following continued police investigations, detectives arrested Stain Mpinda (third suspect), in Chiuzila location on suspicion that he was one of the nine criminals who in June this year, terrorized several lodges in the city, attacked and robbed customers of their valuable property.

Mpinda is one of the two suspects who were at large, while the other seven criminals were arrested, successfully tried in court, and sentenced to 19 years imprisonment each for robberies.

Mpinda (suspect), while on the loose, is said to have formed another group of criminal gangs which has recently been responsible for a spate of house breakings and theft.

Upon his arrest, the suspect led police to a person where his new team of criminals sold six plasma screens and a solar panel among others.

The three suspects will appear in court soon to answer applicable charges.

Chisomo Samu comes from Wanamo Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Mkando, Mulanje, Chikondi Dzonzi hails from Mbirima Village, T/A Mbirima, Rumphi, while Stain Mpinda is from Matamanda Village, T/A Malemia in Zomba District.

Police in Lilongwe have arrested a couple for allegedly stealing a newly born baby at Kamuzu Central Hospital in the city.

Lilongwe Police spokesperson Hastings Chigalu has confirmed of the arrest and identified the couple as Wyson and Gloria Misoya, aged 32.

Chigalu said that husband has been bothering the woman for some time now demanding a child but the woman was unable to conceive due to some family planning methods she was into.

According Chigalu, the two agreed to fake pregnancy and on Saturday the woman went to Bwaila Hospital for delivery.

“While there she attempted to steal a child but she failed and the two decided to invade KCH where they bumped into an old woman carrying a child. They tried her by posing as Good Samaritan and went away with the child,” said Chigalu.

Chigalu said well-wishers who knew the situation of the family reported the matter to police after seeing the child.

The two will appear in court soon.

The Lilongwe Police have arrested four men for allegedly cheating a 68-year-old woman by selling her 30 bags of quarry dust, pretending it was cement. The incident occurred on Thursday, and the woman paid K534,000 for the dust.

According to Police spokesperson Hastings Chigalu, the scammers had placed the bags near another shop on Kamuzu Procession Road and falsely claimed that their cement was cheaper compared to that sold in the shop.

Chigalu stated that the woman transported the bags back to her home, but it was the constructors who discovered that the bags contained only dust.

The suspects are identified as Lyton Yohane, 42, Joseph Green, 42, Wilson Ogren, 48, and Kayinga Nololo, 50. They are facing charges related to fraud and possession of deceptive goods.

In Lilongwe, a 42-year-old man has confessed to killing his 36-year-old wife, Azefa Kasambala, and has turned himself in to the police.

The man, identified as Isaac Patisi, is alleged to have fatally attacked his wife with a knife multiple times, reportedly due to suspicions of her infidelity with other men.

According to Lilongwe Police spokesperson Hastings Chigalu, the incident occurred in Malingunde, where the couple resided.

Patisi, originally from Chakulirapati village under Chief Masumbankhunda in Lilongwe, is expected to face charges of murder.

Lilongwe Police have arrested a father and daughter who were found with assorted medical drugs which are allegedly expired.

Spokesperson for Lilongwe Police, Hastings Chigalu, said the suspects, Regina Stander, 31 and Hardson Malenga, 65, were caught at Mpanipani in Lilongwe Main Market after a tip-off that led to a special operation.

Chigalu said the drugs await assessment by the Pharmacy Medicines and Regulatory Authority (PMRA).

Stander and Malenga are expected to appear before court to answer charges of conducting pharmacy business on unlicenced premises and being found in possession and selling medical products without a license among others.

They all hail from Chilinde Village in the area Of Senior Chief Tsabango in Lilongwe.

The Malawi Police Service (MPS) has confirmed of the kidnapping of the British national at Falls in the capital Lilongwe.

Lilongwe Police spokesperson Hastings Chigalu has confirmed of the development an identified the victim as Muhammad Kasiman.

According to Chigalu, Kasiman is one of the top officials at Universal Industries.

Chigalu said Kasiman met his fate as he was coming from the mosque. The kidnappers blocked the road, forcing to disembark from his Fortuner car before being forced to board a Toyota Noah.

Meanwhile, the law enforcers have recovered a cell phone of the victim.

Police in Lilongwe have arrested a 32-year-old man, Aubrey Madzinkusamba of Likuni, on suspicion of throwing his two children, aged 8 and 4, into a well with the intent to kill them.

Lilongwe police spokesperson Hastings Chigalu said the children remained in the well, which is 30 meters deep, for three days.

It is reported that the man did this because he and his wife both wanted to ‘lose’ following the breakdown of their marriage.

“Following the children’s disappearance, their mother repeatedly asked their father where they were, and he kept saying that the children were being kept in a safe place.

“But after three days, the mother reported the matter to the police, who then questioned the man. After initially denying any wrongdoing, he eventually confessed to throwing the children into the well,” said Chigalu.

Upon hearing this, the police rushed to the well and found the children still alive, but water had reached their throats.

“Police and villagers worked together using a rope tied to a bucket, which helped to lift the children out of the well.

“The children were taken to Bwaila Hospital and later transferred to Kamuzu Central Hospital, where they are receiving medical care,” Chigalu explained.

Madzinkusamba is expected to appear before court soon.

A 17-year-old secondary school student, Tinasha Mtawali, has committed suicide by shooting himself in the head over what is suspected to be, love affair disagreements, on 30 June 2024 at Chitipi Area in the Capital City.

Lilongwe Police Station Public Relations Officer Inspector Hastings Chigalu said on the said date at around 18:00 hours, Mtawali (deceased), left home for unknown destination where he later called his girlfriend on the telephone, telling her that she will never see him again.

In the course of their conversation, the girlfriend heard sound of a gun shooting, and Mtawali stopped responding on his cellphone.

This is when the girlfriend made every effort to relay the same to the deceased’ relations.

This development prompted the deceased’ father to check for his pistol at home, and realized that it was missing.

Efforts by police and family members to search for the deceased’ traces during the night proved futile, until Monday morning, at around 06:00 hours when Mtawali was found lying dead, with the pistol held in his right hand, and his cellphone beside him.

Postmortem done at Goodwill Funeral Services, by medical practitioner from Kamuzu Central Hospital, revealed that death was due to head injuries resulting from bullet shot.

Tinasha Mtawali, hailed from Likuzi Village, Traditional Authority Senzani in Ntcheu District.

A woman in Lilongwe is suspected of killing her husband by pulling and twisting his private parts after a disagreement over money.

Hastings Chigalu, spokesperson for Lilongwe police, said that the couple argued over 40,000 Kwacha, which the husband allegedly used to buy alcohol.

The woman, identified as Ruth Nkhoma, 24, from Nsanje district, and the deceased, Misheck Bayison, 24, from Thyolo district, had a heated dispute.

Currently, Nkhoma is in police custody waiting to appear before court.