A group of eight people facing charges to do with the murder of AIGP Andrew Felix Kaweesi (the former Police spokesman) and his bodygurad and driver have asked court to hang them to death.
The group made their request this morning while appearing before Justice Lydia Mugambe at the International Crimes Division of the High Court , where they revealed that they have been kept in the court cells without being given any food.
“Why doesn’t court just hang us instead of tossing us around, we are fed up of being humiliated and subjecting us to embarrassment,” the suspects shouted on top of their voices.
Before the suspects asked court to hang them, one of their number, one Yusuf Nyanzi collapsed while he was being led to court for the hearing of their bail application. The trial judge subsequently called their lawyers to her chambers, which also enraged the suspects as they deciphered that their bail application would be adjourned for the third time.
Justice Lydia Mugambe was not an inch amused by the way events turned out and ordered the prisons authorities never to bring again to her court hungry prisoners who are fainting and cannot stand, adding that there is no where it is written that imprisonment is a deprivation to food.
She adjourned their bail hearing to Friday this Week, March 1, after Prosecution’s Marion Ben-Bella indicated that she needed two days to secure vital documents for this application.
