Defiler begs to be send him to Luzira

Feb 26, 2009

RARELY do convicts ask to be sent to prisons of their choice. But a 54-year-old man whom the Luweero High Court sentenced to 15 years in jail for defiling an eight-year-old girl, amused the court when he said he was only willing to serve his sentence in L

By Frederick Kiwanuka

RARELY do convicts ask to be sent to prisons of their choice. But a 54-year-old man whom the Luweero High Court sentenced to 15 years in jail for defiling an eight-year-old girl, amused the court when he said he was only willing to serve his sentence in Luzira Prison.

Twahib Kasozi, a resident of Sembwa village in Nakaseke district, on Friday told Justice Benjamin Kabiito that he did not want to return to Nakasongola Prison where he had been on remand because the prisoners there did a lot of hard work.

“Your lordship, I pray that I serve my sentence in Luzira because I have been working hard at Nakasongola where I have been on remand,” he said.

Kasozi also begged for leniency, saying he had 27 children and three wives and that he was remanded for two years. He was, however, sent back to Nakasongola Prison.

Prosecution led by the Luweero Resident Attorney, Bernard Senteza, had told court that the accused defiled the girl at Sembwa village on September 11, 2006. The offence carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.

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