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One in Kampala city Sentenced to 134 years over murder.

13 December, 2023
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The High Court in Kampala has sentenced former street kid Musa Musasizi to a 134-year jail term for the murder of five women in Nakulabye and Kasubi suburbs of Kampala City within one month in 2021.


His victims included his girlfriend, Mackline Ahereza, Violet Kansiime, her three-month-old baby, Nourine Nabirye, and Elizabeth Muteesi. 

Following Musasizi's plea of guilty to strangling most of his victims and setting their bodies ablaze, the Criminal Division Judge Margaret Mutonyi passed the sentence. Musasizi, aged 25, was convicted in July 2023, pending sentencing. 

The court heard that after murdering Ahereza, Musasizi packed her body into a suitcase, hired a boda-boda rider named Abdul Kasajja to transport it to Nateete's Kitooro zone, and set it ablaze using paraffin he purchased from Kobil Pump station.

He then sold Ahereza's phone for 15,000 Shillings, leading investigators to track and apprehend him. Musasizi confessed to murdering Ahereza and several other girls, disposing of their bodies at different locations, and discarding their belongings.

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