The Nkhunga First Grade Magistrate’s Court in NKhotakota has ordered a 29 year-old man to pay 100,000 for injuring his wife with a brick.

The husband, has been identified as Sayini Banda who hails from Mpolopolo village Traditional Authority Kafuzira in the district.

It is reported that during the afternoon of 31 August this year, the husband was coming from church only to find out that his wife was busy preparing food for lunch.

When Sayini asked his wife to follow him to their matrimonial bedroom, the wife refused to do so saying she will go to the room after she finishes cooking.

This did not please the husband who went to the kitchen to beat the woman and then the woman began to retaliate after being tired of being tortured.

Upon realising that he was losing his strength, the man took a brick and hit the woman on the head and she was injured.

After appearing in court, the man pleaded guilty to the charge and court ordered him to pay a fine of K100 thousand spend one year in prison.

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