The Supreme Court in Kampala has confirmed the 18 year jail term handed to Enoch Kizito for killing his wife Mary Nansubuga by pouring acid on her 14 years ago.
On Monday, a panel of five Supreme Court Justices led by the Chief Justice Alfonse Owiny-Dollo Chigamoy confirmed the sentence which was given by the Court of Appeal on charges of manslaughter saying that they had not found any justifiable reasons as to why it should be set aside .
In 2012, the then High Court Judge Wilson Masalu Musene (now deceased) charges found Kizito guilty of manslaughter arising from the October, 24th 2012 murder of Nsubuga at Kasangombe Village, Kirabira Road in Wakiso District.
Kizito was thereafter sentenced to 23 years imprisonment.
Justice Musene ruled that Kizito and he deceased were married and lived together, with their two children, at in Wakiso District and on July, 6th 2012, the couple left home to go to work and returned at different intervals. But the man went and hired a Motorcycle, sat on it and came back to pour acid on the wife on her way back home leading to her death on October 24th 2024 at Mulago Hospital where she had been admitted for almost four months.
Kizito appealed the sentence to Court of Appeal which was later reduced to 18 years in jail and also confirmed today by the Supreme Court.
