Nevers 'Spoiler' Kapenda was a notorious armed robber who perpetrated a reign of terror particularly, in and around Lusaka from the 1980s through to his death in 2004. He committed a series of robberies and inflicted pain on his victims. #Crime
Kapenda was arrested for criminal offenses he committed during the 1980s and he served a 20-year sentence at Mukobeko Maximum Prison in Kabwe.
He was released on 11th November 2003 and he asked for forgiveness for all his bad deeds from Zambians.
In an interview soon after he walked to freedom, Kapenda thanked prison authorities for keeping him like their own child. Before his release, Kapenda had escaped prison several times.
Kapenda, together with an unnamed accomplice, was shot dead by the Lusaka Anti-Robbery Squad on 29th December 2004 in Lusaka's Chilanga area.
Lusaka Province Police Chief Chendela Musonda confirmed in Lusaka that the two wanted criminals were shot dead by police after they attempted to wrestle a gun from officers.
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July 1st 1973 promised to be an ordinary day at Kabwe's Mukobeko Maximum Security Prison, but the stillness of day that hung over the prison was suddenly broken when three inmates staged one of the most dramatic escapes in Zambia's history. #CrimeStory
Never before had any gang of criminals been so daring as to break through the huge, well secured gates of this prison facility but that day it happened and when it did, it resulted in a trail of blood and a stunned nation.
The man at the centre of this was then, Zambia's most notorious criminal, Roy Mudenda and two Congolese accomplices, Alexander Kabongo and Denion Kamunga. At the time of the escape, Mudenda was serving a 20-year prison sentence for aggravated robbery.
In the early 80s Zambia was terrorised by a serial killer and rapist named Milton Sipalo that was dubbed the Lusaka strangler. Between the months of January 1980 to September 1980 he would take the lives of 29 Women including children as young as 10 years old. #ZambianHistory
He would evade the Zambia Police for months and residents of Lusaka became wary and anxious of his presence. At the end of January 1980 it was determined that the Killer was either a soldier or using the uniform as a disguise by a security guard who witnessed one of the victims
in the company of one such individual. Citizens called for Government to seek help from Foreign agencies such as Scotland Yard or the CIA but they decided against that.