A Mozambican court yesterday handed jail terms of twenty-four years to three elite police officers and twenty-three years to another for the murder of a poll observer ahead of national elections in October.
Prosecutors last month had requested an exemplary and severe punishment for the four, accused of gunning down Anastacio Matavele, 58, behind the wheel of his car in the southern city of Xai-Xai.
The men were also ordered to pay a total of twenty-one thousand Euros in compensation to Matavele’s family.
Two of their colleagues received lesser sentences of two and three years, each.
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