Police in Kabwe have revealed that notorious prison escape Joseph Chiteta also murdered people in Kitwe and Kabwe. Three out of 9 bodies buried in shallow graves by Chiteta and his accomplice, another inmate, around the Mukobeko prison farms have been exhumed.
This is barely three days after Chiteta led police to Chichele forest in Ndola where he murdered and tied an 18-year old girl to a pine tree. Police arrested Chiteta on Sunday in Fisenge area. However, it has emerged that Chiteta and Miles Malaya currently serving jail sentences at Mukubeko Maximum Correctional Facility respectively for various offences are behind the murder of nine female victims in Kabwe.
Central Province Commissioner of Police Chola Katanga said the victims were all raped before being killed and buried in shallow graves. He said Chiteta who escaped lawful custody on April 7, 2021 was apprehended on the Copperbelt after committing a string of other offences and that he has since been moved to Kabwe central police where he joins his accomplice, Malaya, who was fished from Mukubeko medium correctional facility to help with the investigations.
Mr. Katanga said despite the bodies being in a decomposed state and unrecognizable, he is hopeful that all the bodies will be exhumed as the suspects are cooperative in leading the police to the different graves dotted around the prison farms. He said all the murders happened between February and April 2021 in Kabwe’s Mukubeko area.