The Criminal Division of the High Court in Kampala has again denied bail to Molly Katanga a widow who is accused of murdering her husband and businessman Henry Katanga .
The 55 year old Molly will now stay on remand at Luzira women’s prison as she awaits her trial on the July 2nd 2024 for the shooting of her husband Katanga on November 2nd 2023.
Molly Katanga however has sofar made two unsuccessful attempts to bail in which she contends that she needs to attend her trial while coming from home due to her grave illnesses .
However in both applications, Justice Isaac Muwata rules that the widow doesn’t make out sufficient peculiar circumstances for court to consider and grant her bail .
Justice Muwata has further ruled that the issue of Molly Katanga’s sickness was already discussed and rejected in her earlier application of 9th/ April and now bringing it back in the second bail application without any new circumstances tantamount to court reviewing its earlier ruling .
In the second bail application , the jailed widow attached a medical report from prison where doctors examined her and concluded that she suffers from grave illness that cannot be ably handled by medical facilities in prison.
The report dated April 15th / 2024, Doctors at Luzira prison wrote that Molly Katanga suffers from nausal sinusitis, Vertigo- a sensational motion or spinning ,breast masses and Hypertension.
The Doctors then concluded that Molly Katanga requires a follow -up with a specialist ENT surgeon and monitoring of her breast symptoms which services are absent in prisons.
However Justice Muwata has instead dismissed the bail application on grounds that the illnesses mentioned in the report are not new and that since the first bail application, Katanga’s circumstances have not changed to warrant a review of bail.
He has advised that Katanga and her lawyers prepare for trial on July 2nd 2024.
Molly Katanga is jointly charged with her daughters Martha Nkwanzi and Kakwanza Patricia who are accused of tampering with valuable evidence which would have been used in court to prove their father’s murder .
The two daughters together with the family’s shamba boy George Amanyire and a nursing officer Charles Otai are out on bail.
