A 41-year-old man identified as Kasusu Lephat has committed suicide after his wife threatened to report him to police for defiling his stepdaughter.
On the evening of August 7, 2021, Lephat was caught red handed by his wife defiling his 8-year-old stepdaughter in the bathroom.
Before he ran away, his wife blasted him against the act and warned that she was going to report the matter to Police.
The next morning by-passers found him hanging in a mango tree at a nearby village.
The matter was reported at Chimwala Police Unit where police officers rushed to the scene and took the dead body to Chimwala Health Centre where postmortem indicated suffocation as the cause of death.
Lephat hailed from Changali village, Traditional Authority Chimwala in Mangochi.