Missing woman’s body found in swamp
THE 23 year old girl who went missing in December was found dead with five teeth missing in a swamp at Kyengera in Wakiso district on January 10.
By Flavia Nakagwa
THE 23 year old girl who went missing in December was found dead with five teeth missing in a swamp at Kyengera in Wakiso district on January 10.
Residents detected a foul smell in the area and traced it to the body of Grace Drani, found floating in a swamp.
Old Kampala CID boss Peruth Karungi said Grace’s mother Marjorie Drani reported her daughter missing on December 29.
Drani went missing from her parents’ home in Kabusu, Rubaga at around 7:30pm on December 28.
“We immediately went to MTN to check for the last people who had communicated to her — because we were told that she had a mobile phone — to assist in our investigation and one of the last communications led us to a contract worker at the residence of the deceased, whom we have in our custody now,†Karungi said.
Karungi said on January 10, they received a communication from the Police headquarters that the body of a young woman with braided hair and jeans had been found.
“The Police took Drani’s body to the city mortuary for a postmortem. The body had started to decompose. By the time Lt. Bob Drani, the brother to the deceased, reached the mortuary to identify the body, it had been buried on January 11 at Bukasa cemetery off Kirinya Road in Bweyogerere,†the officer explained.
Karungi said the body was exhumed on January 12 and identified by the family members. A second postmortem was done to assist in the investigations.
She declared that by Sunday morning, three other suspects were arrested and were still in police custody.
The state of the body and the initial postmortem point towards foul play. Grace’s official burial was on Sunday evening on Hoima road in Wakiso.
During the function, Michael Izama, an uncle to the deceased, said she had just graduated in teaching and tailoring from Mpumude Vocational training Institute in Jinja.
THE 23 year old girl who went missing in December was found dead with five teeth missing in a swamp at Kyengera in Wakiso district on January 10.
Residents detected a foul smell in the area and traced it to the body of Grace Drani, found floating in a swamp.
Old Kampala CID boss Peruth Karungi said Grace’s mother Marjorie Drani reported her daughter missing on December 29.
Drani went missing from her parents’ home in Kabusu, Rubaga at around 7:30pm on December 28.
“We immediately went to MTN to check for the last people who had communicated to her — because we were told that she had a mobile phone — to assist in our investigation and one of the last communications led us to a contract worker at the residence of the deceased, whom we have in our custody now,†Karungi said.
Karungi said on January 10, they received a communication from the Police headquarters that the body of a young woman with braided hair and jeans had been found.
“The Police took Drani’s body to the city mortuary for a postmortem. The body had started to decompose. By the time Lt. Bob Drani, the brother to the deceased, reached the mortuary to identify the body, it had been buried on January 11 at Bukasa cemetery off Kirinya Road in Bweyogerere,†the officer explained.
Karungi said the body was exhumed on January 12 and identified by the family members. A second postmortem was done to assist in the investigations.
She declared that by Sunday morning, three other suspects were arrested and were still in police custody.
The state of the body and the initial postmortem point towards foul play. Grace’s official burial was on Sunday evening on Hoima road in Wakiso.
During the function, Michael Izama, an uncle to the deceased, said she had just graduated in teaching and tailoring from Mpumude Vocational training Institute in Jinja.