KAMPALA- Today the Katanga murder case trial has resumed after yesterday’s hiccup due to technical glitches that failed to connect on zoom the widow Molly Katanga from Luzira women’s prison.
Prosecution has presented its 7th witness, a pathologist attached to the city mortuary at Mulago National Referral Hospital. Dr. Richard Ambayo is also working with the Uganda Police medical department since 2021.
He has testified that on 2nd/ November 2023, the city mortuary received a request from Bugolobi police station to examine the body of the late Henry Katanga. That him with another pathologist Dr. Male Mutumba cut open the already cold and stiff body of Katanga which had an old surgical scar on the buttocks and on the leg.
That the body which was identified to the medics by Katanga’s own daughter Martha Nkwazi had a left an entry bullet wound which fractured the skull and existed from the right side near the ear.
Dr. Ambayo and Dr. Mutumba then concluded in their pathological report that Katanga died of a gunshot wound to his head which was shot at a near contact range. Dr. Ambayo has further testified that there was no recovery of any bullet or fragments from the body but took photographs of the postmortem exercise.
The photographs have been displayed in court and both with the pathological report he co-authored with Dr. Mutumba have been tendered in court as prosecution exhibits. The widow Molly Katanga and her 2 daughters Martha Nkwanzi and Patricia Kakwanzi are standing trial for the family’s patriarch murder and destroying valuable evidence.
They are jointly charged with George Amanyire the family’s shamba boy and a nursing officer Charles Otai who are charged with being accessories of the 2nd / November 2023 murder that happened at Chwa 11 Road in Naguru.
Trial is still on-going as the prosecution summoned two more witnesses for today.
