MUKONO-UGANDA/NEWSDAY: Court assessors in the Makerere University Student, Desire Mirembe murder case have told court the prime suspect Mathew Kirabo is guilty of the offense.
The assessors presented their unanimous view to the high court sitting in Mukono after analysis of the witness and defense evidence.
The assessors informed court presided over by Justice Henry Kaweesa, that they concluded Kirabo was culpable after considering the government pathologist’s testimony which placed Mathew Kirabo’s DNA at the scene of crime.
Mathew Kirabo’s own charge and caution statement where he voluntarily confessed to committing the murder, in addition to police evidence where the accused was video taped leading police to the exact spot where the late Desire Mirembe’s lifeless body was found in a scene of crime reconstruction also formed part of their conclusion.
But also despites the foregoing assessment, Mathew Kirabo’s abscondment and sudden disappearance from the murder trial, was all compelling evidence, pointing to the fact he was guilty.
The assessors reasoned that an innocent person would never have run away from his trial.
“Only a person who knows that he is guilty, runs away” the assessors stated.
Kirabo went missing at the resumption of hearing of his case in October. A Jinja based senior Laboratory technologist Razak Waswa was arrested for forging Covid-19 results for Dr.Kirabo Mathew.
Dr. Kirabo Mathew skipped court on November 3 on claims he was hospitalized in Jinja suffering from covid19.
But investigations found out Dr. Kirabo had not contracted covid19 and that his lawyers only used forged covid19 results to deceive court. Razak was arrested last week and arraigned before a magistrate’s court on Friday and remanded.
In a court session on November 17 2021 the presiding judge Justice Henry Isabirye Kaweesa enforced seized the sureties and they paid their bind of 150m.
After yesterday’s court session, Sisimuka Uganda founder Frank Gashumba said all efforts by everyone should be geared towards to ensuring Kirabo is arrested.
“No one is safe with Kirabo out of custoday. He will now kill whoeveer be presumes has knowledge about his involvement in the killing of Mirembe,” Gashumba said.
Mr. Mirembe, Mr. Musoke said that it was a good step forward after the assessors comments.
“Now we wait for the judgement that is due in May,” Mr Musoke said.
.r Gashumba reminded the public that “Kirabo is a dangerous, cruel criminal and a fugitive from justice that is wanted by police and we have placed a 50m bounty to be paid to anyone with information leading his arrest”.
Background
In 2015, a young girl, Desire Mirembe aged 19 who was pursuing medicine at Makerere university, went missing. Investigations kicked off and all evidence led to a one Matthew Kirabo. Police arrested him and he at the time confessed that he had personally killed Desire Mirembe.
He then led them to where he had dumped the dead body in Lugazi sugar plantations. Police produced him before court in 2015.
The trial judge granted him bail on the basis that he had to go back and complete his studies at Makerere University because by then he was undertaking a bachelors degree in Medicine, a course he had been pursuing with the late Mirembe.
After being released on bail, him & his family who are well connected in the Judiciary, have done everything possible to frustrate the hearing of this case in the courts of law.
A reliable source from the detectives who investigated this murder, informed me that they were ready to proceed with this case in 2015 but reasons best known to the judiciary, this case has not been heard until 2021.
Fast forward, in May, 2021, Mathew Kirabo applied for his passport from court that he wanted to travel to USA and do his Masters degree.
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