Sperius Earadius Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sperius-earadius/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Sperius Earadius Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/sperius-earadius/ 32 32 Tanzanian teacher gets death sentence for beating pupil to death https://jjcornish.com/2019/03/tanzanian-teacher-gets-death-sentence-for-beating-pupil-to-death/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/03/tanzanian-teacher-gets-death-sentence-for-beating-pupil-to-death/ A Tanzanian teacher has been sentenced to hang for beating a 14-year-old pupil to death. The case has outraged a country that has retained the death penalty but has not seen an execution in 25 years. The family of 14-year-old Sperius Eradius refused to bury his body until the teacher Respicius Mtazangira was arrested.  The […]

The post Tanzanian teacher gets death sentence for beating pupil to death appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.

]]> A Tanzanian teacher has been sentenced to hang for beating a 14-year-old pupil to death.

The case has outraged a country that has retained the death penalty but has not seen an execution in 25 years.

The family of 14-year-old Sperius Eradius refused to bury his body until the teacher Respicius Mtazangira was arrested. 

The pupil at a Bukoba town secondary school was accused of stealing from a teacher.

He was hit with a blunt object.

The sentence handed down by judge Lamec Mlacha reflects the anger felt at the deadly assault.

Corporal punishment is still permitted in Tanzania, but under strict conditions.

Four strokes may be administered but only by the headmaster or an appointed teacher with the headmaster present. 

The post Tanzanian teacher gets death sentence for beating pupil to death appeared first on Jean-Jacques Cornish.

]]>