Naigaga sustained injuries on the head and neck and bled to death. Her lifeless body was retrieved by the neighbors who told URN that the couple was embroiled in endless fights and efforts to reconcile them didn’t produce results.
A man in Jinja district
who fled into hiding after his wife has surrendered to Kiira region police
authorities. The suspect is 65-year-old Sabasi Byakika, a resident of Buwala A village,
in Butagaya sub-county in Jinja district.
Byakika is said
to have hacked his wife, Deborah Naigaga 60 on Friday following a heated argument and fled
into hiding. Naigaga sustained injuries on the head and neck and bled
to death. Her lifeless body was retrieved by the neighbors who told URN that the couple was
embroiled in endless fights and efforts to reconcile them didn’t produce results.
Despite this, the
couple insisted on staying under the same roof. However, on Monday, Byakika surrendered to the police. A
source privy to the
investigations told URN on
condition of anonymity that Byakika
has since confessed to the crime
but insists that he never intended to kill his wife.
“He appears
remorseful while explaining circumstances, under which his wife died and insists that it was an act of manslaughter,” the source said. Kiira Region police spokesperson, James Mubi told URN that the suspect will be
transferred to Buwenge central police station with the aim of expediting their inquiries into the matter.
Mubi said that detectives will revisit the scene of crime so
as to gather more incriminating evidence against the suspect.
