- Three Airtel Experts Appears in Lilongwe High Court for Call logs
- They are identifying exact locations where the suspects were communicating and phone numbers used
Three telecommunication savvy’s
from Airtel Malawi were in Lilongwe High Court starting on Thursday to
interpret call logs presented previously by one of the lead investigator Kankhwala
Chilinda in attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder of the former
Budget Director Paul Mphwiyo.
The three officials expected to
continue their examination in chief this Friday, were explaining how the system
identify network tower being used and recognize the subject making call or receiving
a call.
Among others, they were revealing
places where the suspects might have been when they were making their
communication prior to the shooting of Paul Mphwiyo and after he was shot.
From the call logs which have
different phone numbers of Mphwiyo shooting suspects and phone serial numbers,
are indicating how some suspects were communicating from various places and
exact dates and time including the length of the call. The call logs are also
indicating that some suspects prior to Mphwiyo shooting began their
communication even from Bvumbwe tower in the southern region, some places in
Blantyre, Namadzi in Zomba, in Dedza Central region and some places around
Lilongwe and at Bwandilo market in area 47.
One call log traces moving
subject from Bvumbwe in constant contacts with a person in Lilongwe and the
following day such persons called each other using one network tower located at
Bwandilo in Lilongwe.
Other call logs dated between 12th
and 13th September 2013, the further indicates that such suspects
had communication using network towers of city centre, Capital Hill tower and
Area 43 network tower.
However, it was explained that
there are no machines that record conversations of individuals which could be
used to listen to what the said numbers were trying to communicate at that
time.
After examination in chief
finishes this Friday, the defense is expected to begin and possibly finish with
their cross examination on the same day.
Airtel experts are part of state
witnesses because are the people who originated the call log documents
therefore are in better place to tender the documents in court to show that
they released actual documents and are the ones who originated the documents.
Though Airtel had given such documents to the police but criminal law would not
allow police to tender such evidence to prevent issues of forgery and tampering.
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