Traffic police officer handed suspended jail term for beating a man in Xai-Xai – Mozambique

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Traffic police officer handed suspended jail term for beating a man in Xai-Xai – Mozambique

9:00 CAT | 02 Dec 2016

Folha de Maputo

The Judicial Court in Xai-Xai has given a traffic police offer a suspended sentence of 20 months in prison and a fine for assaulting a member of the public.

The victim, Caetano Muthombene, a Limpopo Driving School instructor, was assaulted on 24 October 2015 in Xai-Xai city in what the judicial authorities classified as battery.

Muthombene was violently beaten by traffic policeman Manuel Fidalgo Vicente Cossa, who allegedly crossed a public highway in an irregular manner and was upbraided by his soon-to-be victim.

According to the judge, the convicted agent “acted deceitfully and with intent to injure the victim, to the detriment of his physical integrity and health”.

The reasons for Manuel Cossa punching the citizen in question were also reprehensible, the court found. “There was no reason to go after a citizen who simply drew his attention to the need for observing rules of the road,” the court said.

In the event that the convicted policeman fails to pay compensation to the victim, he will be obliged to serve the jail sentence, the court said.

Source: Folha de Maputo