KAMPALA, UGANDA: A 77-year-old female inmate serving a 19-year jail term for the murder of her husband was Friday killed by a colleague at Luzira Women’s Prison in Kampala.
According to Mr Frank Baine, the Uganda Prisons Spokesperson, Zainabu Aguti, 77, was killed by one Joan Bainomugisa after the two developed a misunderstanding.
“Yes, it is true a female prisoner LWP169/20 Joan Bainomugisha, a convict of murder sentenced to 19 years and 6 months emitted violence to a fellow convict of murder, number LWP39/06 Zainabu Aguti,” said Mr Baine on Friday afternoon.
He explained that the fight started as the two were cleaning their ward when “Bainomugisha hit and injured Aguti who later succumbed to injuries while in the prison hospital.”
The prison’s boss said that this is the second time Bainomugisha is killing a fellow inmate.
In 2020, she killed Betty Nyesigire who was on remand on murder charges at Masindi Prison.
Nyesigire had been taking care of Bainomugisa was hit with a blunt object when she entered her room and her body was later found lying in a pool of blood inside Bainomugisha’s room.
It is from here that Bainomugisa was transferred from Masindi Prison to Luzira Maximum Prison for better management.
“We call it inmate violence. Those who do murder, l think there’s a way blood affects them. They always want to do it again. She (the victim) was cleaning the ward where they sleep. The suspect has been in isolation because she has been having some erratic character,” Mr Baine said.
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