Police caught a second man allegedly involved in the...

Police caught a second man allegedly involved in the brutal attack on a Porebada family outside of Port Moresby on March 5. The first, a 19-year-old youth, was arrested on March 6. This was shortly after the 13-year-old daughter of a local doctor was found alive at a Gerehu settlement almost 24 hours after she was abducted.
Metropolitan police commander Emmanuel Hela said that both men would face abduction, intent of killing and other charges.
National Doctors' Association president Dr Bob Danaya called for capital punishment to be used by the courts in an effort to stem the high incidence of violent and serious crimes. Parliament passed the death penalty Act several years ago.
A Port Moresby court, under the new Act, sentenced a man from Oro to death for murder, but that was cut back later to life imprisonment after the convict, Charles Ombusu, successfully appealed against the severity of the sentence. Ombusu is serving his jail term at Bomana jail outside Port Moresby.
The death penalty was brought in amidst opposition from human rights groups within and outside of country which said it was a step backward.
Parliament, under pressure to do something about the country's bad law and order problem, passed the law to help authorities use it in the courts as a deterrent to serious crimes such as murder.
Danaya joins about 150 callers to Central Province's 89.9 FM Central radio station - who expressed disgust and outrage at the attack on the family - and also called for the government to have the courts dish out capital punishment to those convicted of crimes such as murder and rape.