Abubaker Kalungi is accused of killing former Buyende District Police Commander Muhammad Kirumira and his companion Resty Nalinya Mbabazi.
The High Court in Kampala will rule on the case on Monday.
In connection with the double homicide, the High Court started Hamza Mwebe and Abubakar Kalungi’s trial last year.
Nevertheless, Mwebe was declared innocent by lady justice Margrate Mutonyi in December after the prosecution was unable to establish its case. Kalungi was put on the defense, nevertheless, after she decided that he had a case to answer.
The prosecution, led by Thomas Jatiko, made its closing arguments to the court last month, pleading with it to take the evidence before it into account and convict Kalungi of two murders.
The prosecution cited the Charge and Caution statement allegedly delivered by Kalungi, in which he admitted to taking part in the killings.
The prosecution claims that when Kalungi was escorted to his mother’s residence, he told her that his buddies Mwebe and Abdu Kateregga, who were killed by security, had betrayed him.
The prosecution claims that Kalungi alerted the assassins who ultimately killed him and Mbabazi of how he had been hired to follow Kirumira, which he did.
Security took Kalungi to his mother’s house in Mpigi to investigate the residence where he is said to have spent the night after taking part in the double homicide.
The evidence that Kalungi had phoned Kateregga—who is said to have pulled the trigger when the crime was committed—was also used by the prosecution.
Court assessors requested Kalungi’s acquittal last month on the grounds that the prosecution had failed to identify him as having been there at the site of the crime and that there was evidence demonstrating that the charge and caution statement he is said to have given could have been made under duress.
The prosecution met three of the four requirements for murder, namely that there was a death, that the death was unlawful, and that there was malice aforethought, according to the two assessors Jackline Nafula and Jackline Nabufu.
However, they pointed out that the prosecution had been unable to establish the fourth element of participation and that they had been unable to locate the accused at the scene of the crime.
The assessors also noted that Kalungi had apparently been tortured before signing the charge and caution statement, which claimed he had admitted to taking part in the double homicides.
The doctor examined Kalungi on Police Form 24 days after he had signed the statement, and it clearly indicated significant bruises and healing wounds on his body.
On the day of the murders, Kalungi claimed to have been working in Ndejje close to his house and had spent the night with his family.
He then denied having committed the crime. As a result, the assessors requested that Kalungi be exonerated of all murder-related charges by the court.
