CRIMINAL LAW ASS 2(1)

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COPPERBELT UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF HUMANITY AND SCIENCES

CRIMINAL LAW-
ASSIGNMENT 2024

INSTRUCTIONS

1. The number of pages should be 4 PAGES ONLY, excluding the cover and bibliography.

2. The font size should be 12 while spacing has to be 1.5

QUESTION

Margaret Nzowa met Timothy Chola last week at a Garden party at Mr. George Chinondo’s
house in Sunningdale, Lusaka, and they became friends. They never shared a bed and never sat at
less than a metre from each other in their five- day relationship. Yesterday at 10:00 hours
Margaret decided to visit Timothy at his house in Avondale and found him entertaining another
woman, Betty Zulu. She found Timothy cuddling Betty and felt upset and betrayed by Timothy.
Without waiting for any greetings from Timothy, she turned away and drove back to her house
in Chudhley Township, Lusaka.

When she reached her house, she went into her bedroom and cried for one full hour and fell
asleep. At 16 00 hours she woke up, washed her face and later loaded her pistol. At 18 hours, she
drove to Timothy’s house and found him still entertaining Betty on the lawn, in the frontage of
his house. Without saying a word to either of them she shot both of them dead with her automatic
pistol. Police have arrested her for the murders of the two persons, but she intends to advance the
defences of provocation.

Discuss this defence and indicate whether it is validly available to Margaret in this case and cite
one Zambian decided case and one foreign decided case in your answer.

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