On the night of 10th January 2013, an incident, described as terribly unfortunate, occurred at the home of Jackline Uwera Nsenga and her husband. It was an unimaginable grim situation where Uwera was involved in an incident that claimed the life of the man who had been her husband for nearly twenty years and who was the father of her two children.

An undisputed fact of the case is that Uwera drove a car into her home that evening and as fate would have it, her husband came to open the gate. Her husband got hit and was dragged by the car for a considerable distance. Uwera immediately drove her husband that evening to a nearby health unit where he died of his injuries a few hours later.

She was tried and convicted for the offence of murder and sentenced to a term of 20 years imprisonment.

She, however, appealed this conviction and according to her lawyers not every incident that results in death inevitably qualifies as culpable homicide, leave alone murder. Central to this case was whether Uwera’s husband was hit by the gate or the car and whether Uwera knew who was behind the gate.

Uniqueness of case

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