Police in Kireka is hunting for a man on the run for reportedly poisoning his wife to death following a bitter argument.
25-year-old Sylvia Katushabe, a resident of Kireka B in Kira Municipality Wakiso district and her lifeless body left to decompose in the house she was renting.
Katushabe,s decomposing body was discovered later by neighbors who recognized a foul smell and flies coming from her room and decided to break it open, only to discover the body.
Kampala Metropolitan Police Spokesperson, Patrick Onyango says Preliminary investigations indicate that that deceased was killed by strangulation or poisoned by her boyfriend only identified as Ayesi who is on the run.
Onyango says the deceased’s body has been handed over to city mortuary Mulago for the postmortem to determine the actual cause of death and the hunt is ongoing for Ayesi who is on the run.
According to Onyango, detectives from the Kireka police post visited the scene and examined the body.
More than 20 people have been killed by their partners since the nationwide lockdown started in March because of the coronavirus disease outbreak.
