THE Lusaka Magistrates’ Court has sentenced a 34-year-old garden boy of Chaisa compound to two and a half years’ imprisonment with hard labour for assaulting his female employer over unpaid salaries. In this matter, Yona Banda was facing one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm Contrary to Section 248 of the Penal Code Chapter 87 of the Laws of Zambia. Particulars of the offence alleged that Banda, on October 3, 2024, in Lusaka, did assault Pingiwe Shinuwa Phiri thereby occasioning her actual bodily harm. When the matter came up for plea before Magistrate Kawama Mwamfuli, Banda denied the charges after they were read out to him. During trial, Phiri, the complainant in the matter, narrated that on the material...