A young man who murdered his elderly lover because she disapproved of his bringing other women into her home is now on the run.
A 30-year-old Ugandan man, David Mbabaali, has been declared wanted by the police in that country after he allegedly murdered his older lover,
Harriet Namyenya Mbaziira and buried her in a bath-tub in her house in
Zone Wakaliga B, Nalukolongo, on the outskirts of Kampala, the capital.
According to the New Vision Newspaper, Mbabaali killed the 72-year-old woman after she complained about him bringing other women to sleep with in her house.
The
online paper reports that the suspect has been bringing a younger woman
to his lover's house, sparking off a chilling chain of events that led
to her murder.
According to police investigations,
Namyenya, whose death has been estimated at three weeks ago, caught
Mbaabali with a girlfriend on the ground floor of her storied house and a
quarrel ensued. She reportedly told him to pack and leave but he
pleaded with her to let him spend the night as he had nowhere to go.
On
the fateful night Mbabaali murdered her, he allegedly went up to the
top floor where Namyenya was sleeping and stabbed her to death.
A neighbour said they got suspicious when Namyenya 'disappeared' and when asked,
Mbaabali told them she had gone to Ghana, but after being pressed to give details he said she had gone to London.
The police, in a statement said:
"A
coordinated effort by friends and family got them in touch with the
children of the deceased who live in London, but they denied any
knowledge of her whereabouts.
However, suspicions grew when concerned neighbours reported the missing person at Old Kampala police station.
Mbabaali
was summoned to police to explain the whereabouts of Namyenya. His
varying accounts of the story led police to the old woman's house.
A search of the house at first revealed nothing until they went to the upper floor of the house.
The police found a door to the bathroom that had been sealed off with pieces of wood that had been nailed in the doorway.
When
Mbabaali was asked what was inside he said Namyenya had sealed off the
door because the bathroom had a leakage that caused a bad stench in the
house.
Police then told him to get a hammer so
they could break into the room to search it. This was Mbabaali's cue for
until now he had not been considered a suspect. When he left to get a
hammer he never returned.
The barriers were removed from the doorway and the door was broken down, and immediately a repulsive stench engulfed the house.
Inside the room was a bathtub that had been sealed with concrete which was also broken away.
Lying
in there was Namyenya's decomposing body. By this time Mbabaali had had
a head start, and it dawned on police that the young man had already
fled."
Namyenya was a widow whose late husband, a
former judge during the regime of dictator, Idi Amin, had fled the
country when the strongman went on a killing spree, where he murdered
anyone who opposed his excesses.
