Police in Monkey Bay have arrested a 49 year old woman identified as Idesi Biswick for concealing death and preventing the normal burial of her three-year old granddaughter.

The Police station Public Relations Officer Seargent Alice Sichali has told the press that the suspect was staying with a three-year-old grand daughter who had been suffering from Kwashiokor for some time and died on August 29, 2022.

Instead of informing neighbours and the village head of the area about the death, the suspect took the body and hid it along Mkombedzi River in Pakamwa Village.

On September 2, 2022, her neighbours got suspicious after noticing the absence of the child for some days and reported the matter to police who later found the dead body at the said place in a decomposing state.

Ides Biswick comes from Kaiya Village, in the area of Traditional Authority Ganya in Ntcheu District .