Son and Daughter taken for questioning, for allegedly murdering their father in Kanungu.
NEWS: Police in Kanungu have arrested a son and daughter for questioning, allegedly for murdering their father whom they have been having long standing family conflicts with and occasionally made threats to his life.
The Kigezi Police Spokesperson ASP Elly Maate, the deceased has been identified as Bernard Byamugisha, 49 farmer and a resident of Bushoro cell, Nyamigoye parish, Kanyantorogo Sub County in Kanungu District.
The two suspects were also identified as one Ampumuza Ivan 20 and Tukamushaba Morine 23 both residents of the same address also the biological son and daughter to the deceased who were arrested by police to help in investigations.
It’s alleged that at about 01:30 PM Monday this week, the deceased went to his coffee plantation to pluck coffee beans and he didn’t return home until on yesterday Tuesday at about 8:00 AM, when the son to the deceased Ampumuza (suspect) disguised himself by asking his neighbors, the where about of his father.
Upon receiving the information, the community members conducted a search into the coffee plantation and recovered the body of the deceased lying dead, his back facing up with strangulation marks on his neck, about 3 kilometers from his home.
Maate said that the police were notified of the incident who visited and documented the crime scene, relevant statements recorded, did the Postmortem and the Body handed over to the relatives for descent burial.
A Statement of a Murder Case was registered at Kanungu Central Police Station on the file Number CRB.240/2024.
