Francis Onebe, a senior accountant accused of killing his wife and disposing of her body in a septic tank at their Muyenga marital home, has been denied\u00a0bail by the High Court of Kampala.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judge Micheal Elubu stated in a decision read for him by the High Court Registrar Didas Muhumuza that Onebe did not need bail at this time and that the matter should be moved along instead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to him, the trial would start in April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onebe, 63, is accused of killing Mary Immaculate Aiso Onebe and disposing of her body in a septic tank at their marital house in Muyonyo, Makindye Division, Kampala, in 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prosecution asserts that Asio vanished on January 6, 2021. Onebe opened a case of possible kidnapping at the Kabalagala police station as a consequence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On September 7, 2021, nine months after Asio’s death, when detectives discovered his body rotting in the household septic tank, they arrested Onebe for murder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He requested bail on the grounds that he needed to travel to Nairobi and London for treatment for high blood pressure and chronic prostatitis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onebe’s application was denied in January 2022 by Justice Paul Gadenya, who questioned Onebe’s integrity for having previously traveled to Kenya for treatment without informing the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The judge also observed that individuals facing the death penalty have the propensity to run away when out on bail a concern for what would happen if they are found guilty of the crime they are accused of committing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prosecution claimed that when Onebe’s wife passed away, he was put on a watch list and told not to leave Kampala without the investigators’ consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, according to the evidence presented in court, Onebe disobeyed the rules and was apprehended on September 6, 2021, covertly leaving Uganda for London via Nairobi on the pretext of having a medical emergency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was then taken into custody. Onebe has been again remanded to Kitalya prison while he awaits his case’s trial by Justice Elubu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Onebe and Bonny Oriekot, a private security guard from the Pentagon Security Corporation, were charged together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Francis Onebe, a senior accountant accused of killing his wife and disposing of her body in a septic tank at their Muyenga marital home, has been denied\u00a0bail by the High Court of Kampala. Judge Micheal Elubu stated in a decision read for him by the High Court Registrar Didas Muhumuza that Onebe did not need […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":26434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[31,7118,119],"class_list":["post-35002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured","tag-francis-onebe","tag-uganda-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35003,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35002\/revisions\/35003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}