Police have resubmitted to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) a case file for the murder of medical doctor Victoria Bobe who was shot dead in Blantyre on November 17 2025.
The DPP’s chambers confirmed yesterday that the case has delayed because the initial file police submitted had gaps.
In an interview yesterday, DPP chambers director of Criminal Litigation Josephine Gwaza said the police initially submitted the case file in January this year, but it was sent back for further investigations.
She said the case is serious, as such, her office will not rush to court without a solid case. She urged the public to be patient.
“After reviewing the file, we sent it back and directed further investigations, which they have done and they resubmitted the file last week. We don’t want to rush to court without a solid case file,” said Gwaza.
She said the next step will now be for the High Court of Malawi to set a date for the hearing.
In a separate interview, National Police spokesperson Lael Chimtembo said the case is currently “with the DPP”.
On the other hand, Judiciary spokesperson Ruth Mputeni said the court is waiting for the State to file disclosures.
The developments come against a background of social media reports suggesting that some of the six suspects arrested in connection with Bobe’s shooting had walked to freedom.
However, in an interview yesterday, Malawi Prison Service spokesperson Steve Meke yesterday dismissed the reports, saying “they [the suspects] are still in prison” and have remained in custody since their arrest in December last year.
Bobe, 33, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and a lecturer at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences in Blantyre, was shot dead at her Chigumula Township residence in Blantyre in the presence of her husband.
On December 16 last year, police issued a statement saying that the arrests followed a “detailed confession” from the six suspects who also provided “explicit accounts of their roles”.
Police drew mixed reactions a day after the arrests when they paraded the suspects at the Bobes residence, where they allegedly demonstrated how the crime was committed.
One of the suspects said they gained entry by breaching the backyard fence through a neighbouring property, creating a hole before breaking into the house where the crime was committed.
According to police, items stolen during the incident included a MacBook laptop, an iPad, and an NBS POS machine.
The suspects have been identified as Charles Chikafa, the alleged team leader, Santos Chamamba, Raphael Rafik Abdul Hassan, Peter Chimenya, Isah Ali, and Maxwell Eliya.
