Uganda v Rwagutane John (CR.CAse No. 24 of 1999) [2001] UGHC 99 (11 June 2001)

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}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641\charrsid13397641 }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13397641 VS } {\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid5007906 \par }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13397641 \line RWANGUTANE JOHN}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641\charrsid13397641 \'85\'85\'85\'85\'85\'85\'85\'85.}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 ACCUSED

\par }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13397641 \line BEFORE: }{\b\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13397641 THE HON. JUSTICE V. F. MUSOKE-KIBUUKA }{ \b\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641\charrsid13397641 \par }{\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line JUDGMENT }{\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 The accused person, Rwangutane John, was indicted for the offence of rape contrary to sections 117 and 118 of the Penal Code. 1-le pleaded not guilty.}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 The prosecution led evidence from four witnesses. In summary, the prosecution\rquote s case was that the accused and the complainant lived at Iterero village, }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 Bwongyera sub-county in Ntungam}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 o District. The accused was a young man of about 27 years of age. The two were neighbours. The complainant, D} {\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 in}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 a Bakaihura, was an elderly widow aged about }{\i\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 55 }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 years at the time. She was the widow of the accused\rquote s elder brother who had died earlier.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line On }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13397641 13}{\lang1033\langfe2057\super\langnp1033\insrsid13397641\charrsid13397641 th}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641\charrsid13397641 }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13397641 January}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 , 1999, at about mid-night, the complainant, PW2, was sleeping in her house. The only other person in the house was a young grand child. At about mid-night, the compla inant was awakened by some scratching noise on her bedroom window. She thought that it was her goats, which were making that noise. She woke up to check on the goats. }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 As the complainant reached out for a box of matches to light a candle, she discovered that the front of her house had been pushed open. Someone called her by name stating that he was R}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 wangutane and that he had come }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 to have sex with her. The intruder then grab}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 bed the complainant. After some struggle, h}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 e overpowered her }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13397641 and }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 had sexual intercourse with her. }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 After the first round of sex}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 ual intercourse, the grand child who prob}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 ably was awakened}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 by the unusual commotion in th}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 e }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641\charrsid8461775 h}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 ouse, was crying. The}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 intruder asked the complainan}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 t to go and attend to the child }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 and come back for more sexual intercourse. The complainant took (lie opportunity to pass through a back door }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 and escape from the house. She r }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 an to the home of her }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641\charrsid13397641 son}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 , }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 cal}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 led Matsiko where she spent the rest of\rquote the night after r}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 eporting the incident to the LC1 chairperson called B}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 amaraho.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 \par The following morni}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 ng, the accused was arrested by LC I cha}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 irperson who forwarded him to Bwongyera sub-}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 county headquarters a}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 nd handed him over to PW3,}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 Nkwasibwe Apo}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13397641 llo, who escorted him to Rwasham}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 aire Police post, w}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 here he was forwarded to Ntungamo }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 Police Station.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 \par On}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760\charrsid4724760 19}{\lang1033\langfe2057\super\langnp1033\insrsid4724760\charrsid4724760 th}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 January, 1 }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 997, in }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 a charge mid caution statement recorded by PW2, IP Kemigish}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 a, at Ntungamo Police Station, the accused stated that after the}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 death of his elder brother, th}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 e famil}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 y had asked him to take over (th}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 e complainant as widow of his elder brother. 11 was then that lie had starte}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 d having sex with the complainan}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760\charrsid8461775 t}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 on various occasions. On 13}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\super\langnp1033\insrsid4724760\charrsid4724760 th}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 January, 1999, he went to the complaint\rquote }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 s home to have sex as usual. It was at about mid-night and he had been drinking. The complainant refused to open for him and he had gone to sleep at his parent\rquote s home.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 PW1, Dr. Kworora, examined the complainant at Itojo hospital on l4 January, 1997 against Police Form 3, Exhibit P1. He found her with scratch marks on the neck and human bites on the inside of her right thigh. Those injuries were consistent with putting up some force.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 For his answer to the charge against him, the accused made an unsworn statement. 1-Ic said that}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 the complainant was his sister-in-law and neighbour. H}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 e totally denied having sexually assaulted the complainant.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 He put up an }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 alibi stating that}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 he spent the entire night of 13}{\lang1033\langfe2057\super\langnp1033\insrsid4724760\charrsid4724760 th}{ \b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 January, 1}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 997, at his home sleeping and never went to the home of the complainant.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 The accused claimed that the complainant framed up the case again st him because in 1991, he had caused the arrest of her son called Mwebembezi for having stolen some property belonging to same relative}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 \par . }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 In all criminal trials, the burden to prove the guilt of the accused person \line beyond reasonable doubt rests upon the prosecution. }{ \i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 Johnson (1961) 3 \line A1IE. R. 969.}{\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 \par }{\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 }{\i\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 In the instant case, the prosecution had to prove three essential ingredients of the offence of rape contrary to sections }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid4724760 117 and 11 8 of the Penal Code. \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 a) act of sexual intercourse; \line b) lack of consent on the part of the complainant \line c) participation of the accused. \par The defence did not contest essential ingredients one and two set out above. Counsel for the accused explicitly stated that the defence had no intention to contest the two ingredients of the offence of rape. }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 On the first ingredient, this court accepts the evidence of the complainant. She was very impressively truthful in her testimony. She was an elderly person who knew and had had credible experience in sexual matters. This court cannot doubt that }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 what she experienced during the night of 13}{\lang1033\langfe2057\super\langnp1033\insrsid8389363\charrsid8389363 th}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 January, 1997, was penetrative sexual intercourse as she described it to t}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 his court. The evidence of PWI}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 , Dr. Kworora, and Exhibit P 1 ,}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8389363 render}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 adequate corroboration to the claim of th}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 e complainant that she was sexually assaulted as she claims. For it is not Possible that even if (lie complainant had desired to frame up this case against the accused, she could have succeeded to inflict human bit marks on herself and on the inside part of her right thigh. The human physiology is not norm}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 ally so flexible and certainly not that of }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 a woman of}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8389363 55}{\i\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 years of age. }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line Besides, the accused, in his charge and caution statement before PW2, acknowledged his presence at (lie scene of}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 crime at the materi al time. H}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 e also, acknowledges that lie was there for the purpose of having sexual intercourse with (lie complainant. The charge and caution statement was not challenged in court.}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 On whether the complainant gave her consent for the act of sexual intercourse or not, again her evidence is credible that she died not. The scratches and human bites inflicted upon her, }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 which PW}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 1 recorded}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8389363 }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363\charrsid8389363 in}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 exhibit \par P1 clearly shows that she put a physical struggle but was eventually overpowered. She ran out of the house and slept at the home of her son, Matsiko. She also reported the incident to th}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 e LC I chairperson immediately }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 during that very night. All this evidence was not challenged by the defence and is regarded as accepted as truthful. }{ \i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 James Sawoabiri And Fred Mus}{\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 i}{\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 si v }{ \i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 Uganda Supreme Court Criminal Appeal No. 5/1990.) }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 (Unreported).}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 I am, therefore, duly satisfied that the two first essential ingredients of the offence of rape have been proved beyond reasonable doubt.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363

\par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 To prove that the accused participated in the commissi on of this offence, the prosecution produced the evidence of the complainant. She knew the accused very well. She was the widow of the accused\rquote s own elder brother. The two were neighbours. The accused introduced himself to the complainant when he asked him who he was and what he wanted. He told her that he was Rwangutane and he had come to have sexual intercourse. The evidence of PW2, IP Kemigisha, exhibit P2, is that the accused acknowledged that he went to the home of the complainant during the alleged n ight and at the relevant time and for the purpose of having sexual intercourse with the complainant. That evidence, as I have noted above, was not challenged in court.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 The accused\rquote s total denial put forward in his defence, can therefore, not stand. He deni es ever leaving his home during that night or ever seeing the complainant during the same night. As Sir Udo Udoma C. J., very pertinently stated in }{\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 M Kabenge }{ \i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363\charrsid8461775 vs.}{\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 James K, Mpalanyi Civil Appeal No. B56 of 1962 }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 (reported in HCMB 84/644), it is indeed, }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid8389363\charrsid8461775 \'93a}{\b\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 well known principle of law and practice that a man who swears the contrary of that which he stated on a previous occasion is not worthy of \line belief.\'94 }{\b\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657 \par }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 As for the accused\rquote s alibi, the accused had no duty to prove it}{ \b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid206657 . }{\b\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid206657 Uganda vs Kakooza}{\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657 }{ \b\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657 (}{\b\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657\charrsid206657 1984) HCB}{\b\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid206657 1.}{ \i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 The pr osecution had the burden of destroying it and placing the accused person at the scene of crime. I am satisfied that the evidence of the complainant, PW4, and that of PW2 and Exhibit P2, places the accused person at scene of crime. Consequently, the accuse d\rquote s alibi is false and must be rejected.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 As for the grudge alleged by the accused to have existed between himself and the complainant, it appears to me to be a mere afterthought. If the grudge was real and the accused seriously believed it to have given ri se to his troubles then he could not have forgotten to mention it to the counsel for the defence so that he puts it to the complainant in cross-examination. That did not happen in this case. The accused thought of the grudge while he gave his unsworn stat ement for his own defence. I did not believe that such a grudge had existed }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657 between him and the complainant. \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 But even if any grudge had existed it would most likely not sparked off the allegations constituting this offence since the event allegedly giving r ise to the grudge had taken place a long time beyond. It had allegedly happened way back in 1991, some six years before. If the complainant had wished to revenge the alleged arrest of her son upon the accused, she would have done it earlier and most likel y through some lesser humiliating means than the facts constituting this offence. This I also dismiss the defence of the case having been framed up by the complainant against the accused as a mere desperate afterthought.}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 I fully agree with the unanimous opinion of the lady and }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657\charrsid8461775 gentlemen}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657 }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 assessors, in this case, that the prosecution h}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657 as proved its case against the }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 accused beyond reasonable doubt and he must be convicted as charged.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 I accordingly convict him of the offence of rape contrary to sections 117 and \line 118}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657 of the Penal Code Act. \par }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657 V. F. Musoke-Kibuika \line Judge \par }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657\charrsid13701229 1}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13701229 1/06/2001 \line 11/06/2001 Accused in court. \line Court as before: }{ \b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657\charrsid13701229 \par }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13701229 Mr. Bazare holding brief for Mr. Kasirivu \line }{\b\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13701229 Court: }{ \b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13701229 Case is for judgment. Judgment is read and signed. }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid206657\charrsid13701229 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line }{\b\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13701229 Mr. Waninda: }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13701229 \line }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 I have no record of previous offence. The convict may be regarded as a first offender. The offence is serious. The victim was a very old woman. The accused persons wasted court\rquote s time. He is not repentant at all. At least he does not show it. I pray for a severe punishment. }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid13701229 \par }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line }{\b\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid13701229 Mr. Bazare:}{\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 }{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line The convict was arrested on 14Ih January, 1997. 1-le has been on remand. 1-le has been on remand for 4 years.}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid7544780 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 Before he was arrested he had a wife who subsequently died in 1998. }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid7544780 She left a child of 2 years. H}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 e has to care for the child. }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid7544780 \par }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid7544780 V. F. Musoke-Kibuuka \line Judge \line 10/6/2001}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid7544780 \par }{\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 Accused: }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line I have skin sickness. My wife died. I pray for mercy. My grand mother also died. \line V. F. Musoke-Kibuuka \line Judge }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid7544780 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line }{\b\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid7544780 Court: Sentence And Reasons:}{\i\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 }{ \i\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 \line }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 The offence of rape is a very serious offence. I t carries death as a maximum punishment. I fail to understand why a young man with a wife would rape an old woman twice fit to be his mother. \par In this case, the convict did not only rape but he broke into the house during the wee hours of the night and also inflicted dangerous harm upon his victim. He needs to be punished very severely especially during}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid7544780 this era of\rquote the scourge of HI}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 V/AIDS. }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid7544780 \par }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 I have considered him as a first offender. I have also considered his }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid7544780 relatively young age. But widow}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 s and helpless women throughout the villages must be protected by the law against the likes of this convict. If he had not spent 4 years and }{ \i\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 5 }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 months on remand I would sentence him to 12 years imprisonment. I reduce that period to 7 years and 7 months impr isonment. I hope he will come out}{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid7544780 a reformed person. \par }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid7544780\charrsid7544780 \line V. F. Musoke-Kibuuka \line J}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid7544780 u}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid7544780 d g e \line 11/06/2001 }{ \b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid9120826 \par }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid7544780 \line }{\ul\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 Court: }{\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid8461775 Right of Appeal explained}{ \lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid9120826 . \par }{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid9120826\charrsid9120826 V. F. Musoke-Kibuuka \line Judg}{\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid11623568\charrsid9120826 e \line 11/06/2001 \par }\pard\plain \ql \li0\ri0\sl360\slmult1\widctlpar\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid5007906 \fs24\lang2057\langfe2057\cgrid\langnp2057\langfenp2057 {\b\lang1033\langfe2057\langnp1033\insrsid14830933\charrsid9120826 \par }}