Modise Mokwadi Fly

Modise Mokwadi Fly is a Botswana politician and activist who was convicted and sentenced to death in 2008 of murdering his two-year-old son.

Fly was the general secretary of the Botswana Congress Party Youth League. On 27 November 2006, Fly killed his son Tawana Mosinyi with an axe while the boy was sleeping. He claimed that he had killed the boy accidentally, while throwing an axe at police outside his window. Fly contended that the police had shot at him. ^[1] Fly was convicted of murder by the High Court in Francistown on 17 October 2008. On 21 October, Justice Thomas Masuku sentenced Fly to death by hanging and recommended that Fly appeal to the Court of Appeal of Botswana.

Notes

1. ^ Baatweng, Victor. [1], The Botswana Gazette, January 9, 2010, accessed March 20, 2011.

References

• Oarabile Mosikare, "Death Penalty Clips Fly's Wings", Mmegi, 2008-10-27, accessed 2009-01-16.
• ——, "Botswana: BCP Activist Convicted of Murder", Mmegi, 2008-10-20, accessed 2009-01-16
• "Fly faces gallows for son's murder", Republic of Botswana Daily News Archive, 2008-10-23, accessed 2009-01-16

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