Blantyre - A drunk truck driver who killed 28 political activists when he rolled his vehicle in central Malawi has been handed a three-year prison sentence, police said on Monday.
Shadreck Phiri had pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving at a hearing over the weekend at a court in the province of Dedza, police spokesperson Franklin Gausi said.
The court was told Phiri had been drinking heavily before the crash October 2007 when he lost control of the truck at high speed on a busy highway.
The 28-year-old Phiri had been driving 62 members of the small Alliance for Democracy political party to a convention in the capital Lilongwe when the accident happened. Many of the other passengers suffered severe injuries.
Monday, 18 February 2008
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