By KASONDE KASONDE –

A POLICE officer from Mumbwa has narrated in the Kabwe High Court how he found a gun and ammunition in a house of the man accused of killing his father.
Emmanuel Kamuchele has been charged with one count of murder after he was accused of killing his father.
Kamuchele is accused of killing his father Paul Kamuchele, a lieutenant in the Zambia Air Force (ZAF) on December 29, 2013 in Mumbwa.
Matthews Ngala, a detective inspector at Mumbwa Police Station testified before Kabwe High Court Judge in-charge Mwiinde Siavwapa that on January 6 this year, he was assigned to investigate the murder case involving Kamuchele.
Mr Ngala travelled to Kamwala Township in Lusaka and searched the accused person’s house where he found a pistol and ammunition which were similar to those found at the scene where the dead body was.
The accused later led him to the scene of the incident where empty cartridges of ammunition were discovered and a postmortem was carried out.
Another witness, Malebby Namuyembe, the wife of the deceased told the court that on December 27 her husband left the house for work at the ZAF where he was working.
Her husband was in the process of opening a garage at a plot he owned and used to spend weekends there and return home on Sunday.
Ms Namuyembe testified that her husband left for work on Friday and did not return on Sunday as he normally did though she did not take any action as she thought he was spending more time at the plot.
The following week, she was surprised that the caretaker from the Garage came to her house to find out whether her husband was home as he had not been to the plot.
Police officers later went to her house to inform her that her husband’s car was found abandoned in the bush near the ZAF Barracks where the body of her husband was found in a decomposed state.
The case has since been adjourned to November 20 for continuation of trial.