BY SYLVIA MWEETWA and ETAMBUYU SANG’ANDU –

THE Kabwe High Court has found a 23-year-old Mkushi youth with a case to answer for allegedly stabbing her cousin to death over family differences.
Lusaka based High Court Judge Chalwe Mchenga, sitting in Kabwe, found Cynthia Tembo with a case to answer after the  state  closed its case  after calling six witnesses.
This is in case in which Cynthia is alleged to have murdered Masautso Lungu while acting with  other people on  August 28, last year, a charge she denied.
During trial, grandmother to accused, Nora Tembo,78, testified  that  on the  fateful  day she was at her home when Mr Lungu, who was her grandson, approached her with a view to resolving misunderstandings in the family.
She told the court that while she was inside the house Mr Lungu went outside but that when he returned, he had a cut on his stomach, with intestines hanging out and indicated to her that  he had been  attacked by Cynthia  and  her sister Priscilla.
Arresting officer, Kenneth Chiyaba said he arrested and charged the accused following investigations and witness accounts of deceased having identified his attackers before he died.
Mr Chiyaba said  efforts  to trace  Priscilla  who was  last  seen at her mother’s  home  in  Kapiri Mposhi  a night after the incident, failed.
Meanwhile, an 18-Year-old male teenager has testified in a case in which his older sister was allegedly murdered by her husband using a knife.
Frederick Kasenge, a Grade Nine pupil, said her sister, Catherine Kasenge died after she was stabbed with a knife by her husband Frank Sinkala.
Fredrick said this when he testified before Kitwe High Court Judge Chilombo Phiri when the matter in which Sinkala is charged with murder, came up for commencement of trial.
Details of the offence are that, Sinkala of Zambia Township in Chambishi Town on February 28, this year, murdered Catherine Kasenge while they were on separation.
In giving testimony, Kasenge explained that on the fateful day around 18:00 hours, he had come from extra lessons when he found his brother in-law outside his late sister’s house.
He told the court that his sister had refused to open the door to her estranged husband but that Sinkala gained entry to the house when Catherine tried to let her brother in.
Sinkala allegedly stabbed his wife in the stomach and leg, ripping her intestines from the stomach, before running away.
Catherine was later rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
The matter was adjourned to July 21 this year for cross examinations.