Kabale High Court has sentenced Moses Nsabimana, a 24-year-old student at Kabale National Teachers College (NTC) to 35 years of imprisonment after he was found guilty of murdering Agnes Kimpaye, a 27-year-old and her 2-year-old son.

Nsabimana was sentenced by the Kabale High Court Judge, Justice Samuel Emokor who presided over the case, on September 29, 2023.

The State prosecution led by Grace Nabagala Ntege told court that, Nsabimana ended the life of Kimpaye on May 7, 2020, while at Kyahi, Kisoro Municipality by hacking to death Kimpaye with her son on her back. The deceased sustained deep-cut wounds on the neck.

Nsabimana accused the deceased of killing his elder brother who was at the university using witchcraft.

Justice Emokor passed the judgment, but subtracted three years and five months that Nsabimana had been on remand.

He said that, the evidence brought by the prosecution placed Nsabimana at the scene of the crime proving him guilty as charged.

“The blood samples found on a short-sleeved dirty shirt with purple strips that was found at Nsabimana’s home were taken to the government analytical laboratory in Kampala for blood DNA. It was found that, the blood samples on it matched those of Kimpaye, the victim,” Emokor said.

The convict requested court for a lenient sentence as he needs to go and finish his studies at National Teachers College Kabale and that the victim bewitched the only brother he had and now he is the only child that their parents have.

Court found Nsabimana not remorseful for the murder, as he chopped the victim with a machete, targeting delicate parts like the head and neck, adding that, such acts by citizens to settle differences are so common in the court jurisdiction.

Nsabimana was sentenced to 35 years in prison on two counts of murder. He will serve a sentence of 31 years and seven months, having spent three years on remand.