Luwero Reverend jailed 12 years for murdering wife.

Luwero: The High Court in Luwero has sentenced a former priest to serve 12 years in jail for killing his wife.

Reverend David Sekibaala of Luwero Anglican Diocese was sentenced after being convicted of killing his wife Deborah Nakalema in 2020. The deceased was the headteacher of Kikamulo Church of Uganda Primary School in Nakaseke district.

Sekibaala aged 62 years by then strangled the wife and later set the body on fire inside the house. He later ran to his brother where he reported the death of his wife and blamed it on a bomb explosion in their house before he fled to evade arrest.

Police later arrested Sekibaala and presented him to Court where he was charged with murder of his wife. Since then he has been on remand in Nakasongola prison.

According to the Luwero Chief Resident State Attorney Peace Bashabe, Sekibaala pleaded guilty to the murder of his wife before Luwero High Court Judge Henrietta Wolayo.

The children told Justice Wolayo that they had forgiven their father since he had accepted the offence.

Sekibaala was chaplain at Buzzibwera Secondary School but he retired early over alcoholism and repeatedly assaulting his wife.