12 August 2008 :

the Ugandan Court of Appeal upheld a death conviction of a 27 year old man found guilty of murder. Levi Nuwamanya, a businessman from Rukungiri town, was found guilty of killing his lover, Enid Tumuhimbise, on December 22, 2003, for unknown reasons. The prosecution said Tumuhimbise's body was found the next day lying in a pool of blood behind the doorway with her throat, palm and fingers cut. According to the prosecution, Nuwamanya was sighted at Tumuhimbise's house on the fateful night but when the body was discovered in the morning, he had vanished. But security operatives mounted a search and found him in a blood stained shirt. The blood samples corresponded with those on the deceased's bedsheets. High Court judge John Bosco Katutsi sentenced him to death in 2006.The appeal panel was headed by the Deputy Chief Justice, Laetitia Mukasa-Kikonyogo, with Justices Stephen George Engwau and Amos Twinomujuni.