High Court Judge Isaac Muwata will on Thursday rule on whether police form 17A will be relied on in the ongoing trial in which five people are charged in connection with the murder of businessman Henry Katanga.

This was after defence lawyers last week questioned the reliability of the police form 17A, a document used to request DNA analysis, by the acting director of Forensics at the Uganda Police Force, Mr Andrew Kizimula Mubiru.

Defence lawyers claimed they had observed some discrepancies, including the appearance of a missing sample (H) that was not disclosed to them but was included in the evidence submitted to the court.

Mr Elison Karuhanga, one of the defence lawyers, during cross-examination, put it to Mr Kizimula how he carried out a DNA analysis that was never requested for by the police.

Core to their cross-examination, the defence lawyers argued that the police can only carry out DNA analysis relating to ascertaining parentage but not to be used in criminal trials.

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