Soroti High Court sentences two Karimojong to death over Murder charges.

Soroti High Court has sentenced 2 Karimojongs to deaths over murders charges.

JOSEPH EIGU ONYANGO


SOROTI. 10TH/ 9/2008.

Soroti High Court has sentenced two people to death over murder of 3 people in Moroto Municipality.

The convicts identified as Apangira Lomongo and Modo son of Locole from Moroto municipality were accused of murdering Nalinga Jessica and her son Ngorok Regnaldo and Acongoli Thomas.
The incident happened in October 2005 in senior quarters ward in Moroto municipality.

The High Court presided over by Judge Steven Musota found Lomongo and Modo guilty of murdering three people contrary to section 188 and 189 of the Penal Code Act.
Musota sentenced the duo to suffer death subject to the confirmation of the said sentence by the president.

The court was adjourned immediately after the death sentence was read. These are first two people to be sentenced to death in Soroti high court this year.

Lomongo and Modo, who looked confused after the judgment was read, were immediately whisked away to Soroti government prison using police patrol car 999 as they wait to be transferred to Luzira prison.

The judgment changed the atmosphere in the court premises as one of the prison warders who escorted the suspects to court shouted that’ am confused; two of my inmates have been condemned”.

Statement of offence.

The court was informed by the Director of public prosecutions that Lomongo Apangira and Modo s/o lochole committed the offence at 9pm when they broke into the house of Jesca Nalinga.

Its noted that the duo demanded money from Nalinga whom they got watching a TV set with her family members before shooting them to death as the rest of the members at home managed to run away.

The statements adds that the next day post- mortem reports police form 48c showed the deceased were shot dead using the gun since the wounds were there, and also
identification parade reports for police form 69 indicated that both convicts were truly identified by the family members who managed to escape at the time of this murder.