Uganda: businessman's life sentence for a child's ritual killing upheld by the Supreme Court
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Appellate history
2021-11
Final appeal dismissed; life sentence stands.
Record class
Context only
Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
a witchdoctor and his wife, engaged to perform the killing, the businessman who commissioned it
Organization
No organization assigned
Archive classification
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NOT AN AUTHORITY-ABUSE CASE toward the child, who was a stranger. Recorded as victim-directed ritual — and as the pattern the corpus most wants documented, where a client's belief in a witchdoctor's power converts into a commissioned killing.
- Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim
- Violent occult ideology or sacrifice
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2021-11-01 · conviction; final appeal dismissed
High Court of Uganda; Court of Appeal (2014); Supreme Court of Uganda (2021). Kato Kajubi, a Masaka businessman, was convicted of the murder of twelve-year-old Joseph Kasirye, who was decapitated and mutilated in a ritual said to prosper Kajubi's real-estate business. He was sentenced to life imprisonment; the Court of Appeal upheld the conviction in 2014 and the Supreme Court of Uganda dismissed his final appeal in November 2021. The witchdoctor Umar Kateregga and his wife Mariam Nabukeera were tried separately.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- a child killed and mutilated in a 'cleansing' ritual said to prosper a business
Cited record
Sources
- national newspaper court reporting final appellate disposition Daily Monitor: 'Supreme Court upholds businessman Kato Kajubi's life sentence'.
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- https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/supreme-court-upholds-businessman-kato-kajubi-s-life-sentence--3617446 Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: final-appellate-disposition. SHA-256 5d71f5e26e9b61eb02a41885f716ed74aa8626ba6cdf0565bcb159f88dec8474
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