‘Reject Mureeba appeal’
Jul 29, 2005
THE State has requested the Supreme Court to reject a criminal appeal by Janat Mureeba, the former accountant of Luzira Prison, who is on death row for double murder, saying there is strong evidence on record.
By Hillary Nsambu
THE State has requested the Supreme Court to reject a criminal appeal by Janat Mureeba, the former accountant of Luzira Prison, who is on death row for double murder, saying there is strong evidence on record.
Vincent Wagona, the principal state attorney, who represented the Director of Public Prosecutions, supported the conviction and death sentence against Mureeba. He said the revidence on record was watertight.
Mureeba was convicted with Ismail Aliga, a former Uganda Army soldier and Kassim Byaruhanga, for the murder of Mureeba’s co-wife Norah Namara alias Peace and her 18-month-old daughter, Gabriella Mureeba.
Namara, who was also seven months pregnant, was gunned down together with her daughter at their home in Ntinda, a Kampala city suburb.
Justice Arthur Oder, who headed the coram, said court would deliver its verdict on a date to be named in the future. The other judges on the panel were John Wilson Tsekooko, Alfred Karo-kora, Joseph Nyamihana Mulenga and George William Kanyeihamba.
High Court Judge Augustus Kania convicted Mureeba and the two men in 2000.
THE State has requested the Supreme Court to reject a criminal appeal by Janat Mureeba, the former accountant of Luzira Prison, who is on death row for double murder, saying there is strong evidence on record.
Vincent Wagona, the principal state attorney, who represented the Director of Public Prosecutions, supported the conviction and death sentence against Mureeba. He said the revidence on record was watertight.
Mureeba was convicted with Ismail Aliga, a former Uganda Army soldier and Kassim Byaruhanga, for the murder of Mureeba’s co-wife Norah Namara alias Peace and her 18-month-old daughter, Gabriella Mureeba.
Namara, who was also seven months pregnant, was gunned down together with her daughter at their home in Ntinda, a Kampala city suburb.
Justice Arthur Oder, who headed the coram, said court would deliver its verdict on a date to be named in the future. The other judges on the panel were John Wilson Tsekooko, Alfred Karo-kora, Joseph Nyamihana Mulenga and George William Kanyeihamba.
High Court Judge Augustus Kania convicted Mureeba and the two men in 2000.