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Tanzanian policeman gets 15-year jail term for killing journalist

Xinhua, July 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

A Tanzanian High Court in the southern highland region of Iringa on Wednesday sentenced a police officer to a 15-year jail term after he was found guilty in the manslaughter of a journalist.

Paul Kihwelo, the High Court judge, jailed police officer Pificious Cleophase after he was found guilty of unintentionally killing the television journalist Daudi Mwangosi in 2012.

Delivering his verdict, Judge Kihwelo said the police officer confessed before a justice of the peace, an evidence which was admitted by the court.

The judge said the evidence brought before the court was too questionable to merit a murder conviction.

The late Mwangosi, a journalist with a private television station called Channel Ten and chairman of the Iringa Press Club, was killed during a confrontation over the arrest of another journalist during a political rally by an opposition party at Nyololo village in Iringa region.

Police maintained that in staging the rally the opposition party supporters defied an official ban on political demonstrations.

A police contingent attacked the journalist after he confronted them over the assault and arrest of his colleague, Godfrey Mushi, who had been photographing the demonstrations. Endit