Mzuzu Senior Resident Magistrate court has sent to jail a 25 year old man Junior Bwanali to 42 months imprisonment with hard labor for stealing a child contrary to section 167.

Passing the sentence yesterday, Senior Resident Magistrate Godfrey Nyirenda said that the convict deserves a stiffer punishment.

The convict (Bwanali) stole a 6-year-old boy who was on his way back from school, lying to him that he was his father’s friend.

Mzuzu police deputy Spokesperson Enala Kalua says, the court established that Bwanali took the boy to a bar in Chiwavi Mzuzu, where he was keeping him.