Grandfather ‘threatened to violate a virgin’

A court has granted an injunction stopping the deportation of the parents of two children who fled Malawi because of an alleged threat by their grandfather to violate “a virgin from his own bloodline”.

The threat came from the grandfather after a witch doctor said this would cure his HIV infection, it was claimed in court.

Despite the parents’ subterfuge in trying to avoid deportation so far, it would be unjust to visit the children with the consequences of the parents’ wrongdoing, the Court of Appeal said.