The Kabale High court sitting in Kisoro district has today sentenced two youths in their 30s to serve a prison term of 25 years on conviction of a joint murder case.
The convicts are Habumugisha Gilbert and Hakizimana Innocent, residents of Rubarakono village, Gasiza parish in Nyakabande Sub County.
The two are convicted of killing a 60-year-old, Harerimana Jackson on 10th June 2019.
The old man was waylaid by the two men who hit him with a stone that deeply cut his head.
Prosecution states that the deceased was a father to one of the assailants, Habumugisha Gilbert who knowingly decided to kill his own father.
Police managed to apprehend the two suspects with the assistance of a Police Sniffer Dog.
Hon. Justice Emokor Samuel, the Resident Judge of the Kabale high court circuit said that the evidence produced against the convicts was sufficient enough to place the two convicts on the scene of crime.
Prosecution prayed that the two be sentenced to 35 years as a deterrent message to the community because similar cases are rampant in the district.
The defense council pleaded for lenience because the convicts are still young, have families to take care of and can become reasonable citizens in future.
Hon. Emokor noted that the convicts should not plead for leniency because they want to take care of their families because they did not consider the family of the deceased by the time of killing him.
He gave them a custodial sentence of 25 years in prison but deducted 4 years and 2 months that they have spent in prison.
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