/ 4 October 2000

JUDGE FREES MAN FROM BEDROOM

A ZAMBIAN court has granted a divorce to a man whose wife locked him in the bedroom every night to stop him committing adultery, a Zambian newspaper said. Apparently, the man’s wife, Lifuna Nyambe, told judge Alfred Shilibwa that she was afraid that if she left the bedroom door open, her husband would sneak out to have sex with their live-in domestic staff. Nyambe’s husband of eight years, Patrick Sianyauka, said he was upset by being locked in. Sianyauka also said Nyambe would order him to the bedroom whenever her female friends visited the home ”so that I could not be tempted”. Shilibwa dissolved the marriage, saying far too much suspicion and lack of commitment had undermined the union. – Reuters