A twenty-year-old woman has been committed to the High Court for trial on charges of murdering her husband who had just been released from prison.
Chief Magistrate Stella Maris Amabillis committed Neymar Fidali, a resident of Kakindu Katabi after having the committal warrant in the matter read and translated to the accused.
“Your case is now no longer in my hands,” Magistrate Amabillis told the accused after committal warrant was read and explained to Fidali. “You will no longer be brought to this court before me for mention, but you shall wait for any next criminal session of the High Court possibly in Kampala or here, whichever.”
According to the warrant, Fidali was wife to Tony Mbaziiira who was some time in 2019 arrested and remanded on some charges. With him in jail, Fidali got into another relationship with one Rider Jonah. Along the way, Mbaziira was released before the end of the year only to find her loved one in a new relationship.
After short time, the two rekindled their love but Fidali continued seeing Rider.
On August 26th, 2022, Mbaziira came home and found his wife away. When he called asking her whereabouts she reportedly told him that she was in a bar at Kawempe with Rider, but he should go and collect her.
Mbaziira dutifully went to pick his wife whom he found in the company of Rider. They boarded a taxi home that night. In the morning she woke up neighbours complaining that her husband was having health complications, that he could not breath.
Neighbours who immediately came to see what had happened only found Mbazira lying in a pool of blood face down, with the body half dressed. Police from Kisubi police station were called in, and confirmed Mbazira was dead and took the body to Mulago for postmortem. The wife was arrested but other suspects who included her new lover remain at large.
The committal warrant says a blood stained t-shirt was recovered, a woman’s black nicker and two phones as exhibits. The body had wounds in the chest and the back.
A postmortem report indicated the deceased had died of excessive bleeding due to a wound that run deep into the heart. A Police form 24A to ascertain the mental status of Fidali indicated the accused was of sound mind, a prerequisite to arraign a suspect before court on capital offences.
Dressed in a green maternity dress, Fidali who is in advanced stages of pregnancy answered in the affirmative when the magistrate asked her if she understood all that had been explained.