The rate at which crimes of passion are hitting Uganda is rather alarming. Police in Kabalagala are holding four suspects over the gruesome murder of a 25 year old woman in what is believed to have been a love fight. Gorrete Arot, the daughter to Superintendent of Police, Charles Opiko and a resident of Namugongo […]
The rate at which crimes of passion are hitting Uganda is rather alarming.
Police in Kabalagala are holding four suspects over the gruesome murder of a 25 year old woman in what is believed to have been a love fight.
Gorrete Arot, the daughter to Superintendent of Police, Charles Opiko and a resident of Namugongo was killed on Sunday after a fight with her lover in Nsambya barracks.
“The victim had been in a relationship with Wycliff Ssebunya which resulted into a child, ” the deputy police spokesperson, Polly Namaye said on Monday.
Other suspects in police custody include Watson Davis Kalyango,22 and John Julius Sseremba,22 and are currently detained at Kabalagala police station as investigations into the circumstances leading to the death of Arot continue.
There have been a number of incidents in which spouses have killed their loved ones following misunderstandings. Police in Entebbe, Wakiso District in January 2019 arrested Lillian Asasira for stabbing her husband John Owori to death after accusing him of engaging an extra marital relationship with their housemaid.
In 2013, Berry Ahabwe a primary school teacher in Kitaka Zone, Nyendo, a Masaka suburb was one morning found dead in what was believed to have been a result of a fight between him and his partner who was also found by neighbors lying unconscious.
Just last year, Police in Mukono arrested Jackie Nakku for allegedly killing her husband in cold blood following a domestic misunderstanding.
According to Police investigations, Nakku hit her husband with an iron bar killing him instantly.
