Police arrests Key suspect in Bank staff murder

Aug 04, 2017

Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Emilian Kayima confirmed Okoth had been arrested from hide out in Kiwatule.

CRIME

Police on Friday morning arrested Andrew Calvin Philips Okoth, the prime suspect in the murder of Tropical Bank employee Fahima Natoolo whose body was recovered in Mbalwa.

Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson Emilian Kayima confirmed Okoth had been arrested from hide out in Kiwatule.

"He was arrested at around 10 minutes past midnight on Friday morning. Vigilantes identified him and spoke to our DPC Kiira road Michael Kasiigire and we followed him up to where he was hiding in Kiwatule and he was apprehended together with a girl who is suspected  to either be an accomplice or his girlfriend.  We have detained both of them at our police station and investigations will continue. We are also investigating him on possibilities that he may have committed other crimes. We will leave no stone unturned," Kayima said. 

By the time of his arrest, Okoth was still nursing wounds Police say he sustained during a fight with the late Natoolo at his home in Mbalwa. Part of his feet were still covered in bandage.

Natoolo was murdered on Sunday morning and police say all indications are that Okoth had asked her to spend a night with him at his home in Mbalwa Nabwojjo Road and might have killed her. He later fled the crime scene using the deceased's car.

According to Police, Okoth drove to nearby Laida clinic with the wounds from the fight with Natoolo and asked for medical help but later, when the hospital staff started asking him questions he said he wanted to use the bathrooms and disappeared.

Kayima said clinic attendants where Okoth abandoned his vehicle checked the car and recovered a contact card of a brother to the diseased whom they called and explained about the case.

The discovery of Natoolo's body follows a query on missing persons posted by a friend on a popular facebook Page Mama Tendo Foundation.

According to her friend, Natoolo was last seen with her boyfriend Okoth in a bar. "They were last seen together at Red eye Bar at Lugogo UMA show grounds on Saturday, nobody has seen or heard from them since," her friend said.

Shortly after she posted, Okoth's neighbour who had witnessed the two fighting on Sunday morning and is a member of the same social media group posted what she had witnessed that Sunday morning.

According to her, she lives next to the suspect's home and that Sunday morning they had woken up by the fight between the deceased and the suspect. She later gave directions to the residence where they stayed and the family members in the company of police went to the scene to try and carry out a search.

The house was locked from outside prompting them to ask the landlord to allow them break the door.

On breaking the door, all the household items were strewn on the floor and dry blood spilt all over. The families fears were confirmed when Natoolo's decomposing body was recovered in the house on Wednesday morning. By the time of her death, she had just secured a transfer from Masaka branch to Kampala.  Natoolo was buried in Masaka on Friday.

Kayima pleaded and requested the public to adopt the neighbourhood watch adding that if the neighbour that heard about the couple's wrangles had reported to the authorities, the incident wouldn't have happened.

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