Man returning from two-year jail term hacks wife to death

A Police inquest is underway in Mayuge District after a 32-year-old woman was allegedly hacked to death by her husband in Buwanda village, Malongo sub-county. The deceased, who has been identified as Fatuma Nabirye, is alleged to have been locked in the bedroom by her husband, before being hacked multiple times with a machete. The Busoga East Police spokesperson, Ms Diana Nandaula, said residents heard the wife screaming, but none of them could gain access to the bedroom which had been locked from inside, while others dismissed it as a “simple domestic fight”. “We were told that people heard the woman screaming as the fight went on, but they could not intervene because this man had locked the house from […]