Los Angeles, United States | AFP | Authorities have arrested a Turkish-born man suspected of shooting five people dead, including a teenaged cancer survivor, at a shopping mall in the US state of Washington. Police named the suspect as Arcan Cetin, a 20-year-old resident of the nearby town of Oak …
Read More »High Court grants Sebuwufu bail
High Court Judge Wilson Masalu Musene has Friday afternoon granted bail to Muhammad Sebuwufu, the key suspect in the alleged murder of a Kampala businesswoman Donah Betty Katushabe. Justice Musene ordered Sebuwufu to pay sh10 million cash and deposit his passport with court as condition for his bail release. The judge said the …
Read More »High Court confirms terrorism charges for 14 in Muslim clerics case
The High Court International Crimes Division has confirmed that the 14 suspected to be behind the killing of Muslim clerics in Uganda must stand trial on charges of terrorism, murder and attempted murder. In a ruling in Kampala on Friday, Justice Duncan Gaswaga found that the evidence on record that the …
Read More »VIDEO: Police say they have never received Baguma’s summons
The Uganda Police has refuted allegations that it has deliberately refused to arrest one of its own; former DPC of the Kampala Central Police Station Aaron Baguma. Police says they have never been served with the DPP’s arrest warrant – only reading about them in the media. Baguma is accused …
Read More »British MP killed in shock attack before EU vote
London, United Kingdom | AFP | A pro-EU British lawmaker was killed in a shock daylight street attack on Thursday, halting campaigning for the referendum on Britain’s membership in the bloc just a week before the crucial vote. Jo Cox, a 41-year-old mother-of-two from the opposition Labour Party, was shot …
Read More »Ugandan sentenced to life in prison for killing family in the US
Isaac Tiharihondi, son of a Ugandan Houston-based pastor, was recently sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to the January 2015 murder of his parents and brother in Texas, US. Tiharihondi bludgeoned his Ugandan father, Episcopal priest Israel Ahimbisibwe, 51, and mother Dorcus then fatally stabbed his 5-year-old brother, …
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