In criminal trials, the defense of insanity requires the accused to prove they were suffering from a disease of the mind that rendered them incapable of understanding their actions or knowing they ought not to do them at the time of the offense. The burden of proof for insanity shifts to the accused, who must demonstrate both a mental disease and its direct impact on their cognitive ability to comprehend their actions. Courts evaluate this through medical evidence, witness testimony, and analysis of the accused's conduct before, during, and after the incident. In this case, the court rejected the insanity defense because the accused demonstrated coherent behavior, logical decision-making, and premeditation (including Google searches for ISIS beheadings and firearm licenses), indicating full mental capacity at the time of the crime.
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My name is Henry.
I'm one of the pastors here at GA Community Church.
Before I read any prayer, allow me to read you a scripture. It comes from the book of Psalms, chapter 121.
I lift up my eyes to the heels. Where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.
Father, we thank you so much for this far you have brought us.
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appearance for the prosecution. My name is Jonathan.
I jointly appear with Miss Aniza.
We both chief our colleagues on watching brief Mr. Stanley Mr. Pasi and Mr. Ro, my lord used this in court and uh Miss Sarah Aero and Mr. Richard Kumba represent him.
The three assessors are also important.
I order the matter is for judgment and we are ready to receive it.
Good morning once again.
Okay. This judgment relates to a criminal hearing conducted at a court convene at the Gava community church grounds located at Gava Trading Zone Gava Parish Mining Division Kala District in accordance with the constitution operation of mobile practice directions 2026. The honorable chief justice of the republic of Uganda appointed him to operate the mobile court by an instrument of appointment 2026 district mobileines.
The accused person is indicted on four counts of murder contrary to sections 171 and 172 of the Philipp Act 150.
In count 171 and 172, it is alleged that Christopher Ou on the 2nd of April 2026 at GA Childhood Development Center, Gava Trading Zone, Gava Parish, mapping a divisional district with What is unlawfully caused the death of a video?
Christopher House 2 m contrary to sections 171 and 172 of the teleport act. It is alleged that Christopher Onu on the second day of April 2026 at Baba Childhood Center Gaba Trading Zone Gaba Parish Martin division district with my support against a general Childhood Center District again was obtained. In part three, it is also that contract section 171 and 172 act 128 and it is alleged that Christopher on the second day of April 2026 at GA development center GA trading zone Garish marking the division papa district with money support and The death of Syrian childhood center and 172 act. It is alleged that Christopher on the second day of April 2026 at Ga Child Center Traision Ryan Development And when this matter came up, the prosecution was represented by Mr. Jonathan, Maiza, both chief set attorneys for the director of public prosecutions person was represented by Mr. Richard and Mr. Osara on stage three. And on watching brief we had on behalf of the families of the chief children we had Mr. Stanley Oket Mr. Roali and Mr. was from James advocates and I know that both council for their person and the prosecution made oral submission of court decisions which I have considered and Stop it.
Richard They want to know from the facts of the case as laid before this court. This is what I find the prosecution case. The deceased person aged 2 years and 6 months ago aged 1 year and 11 months. Ignition age 2 years and 4 months and aged one year and 3 months were under the care of a child improve uh development center and in this case I will keep referring to it as the center. It is a daycare facility under the management of Ghava Community Church at Gava Trading Zone, Gava Parish, M Education, Campala District and Gava Child Development Project is run by Gava Community Church and operated at Gava early childhood development center located at Gava Trading Zone, GA Parish Market.
for childhood development. Center was given by the other and the center was founded by South Community Church and care and an early childhood program for the vulnerable and minority children who are on the side from the community. The children under the dayare program some money while the vulnerable were among the vulnerable among the church.
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Christopher who I will keep referring to as the accused person going forward. He's a real an American citizen by nationality and my back. We hold two American passports and those passports were admitted in court as Mr. Uganda on 31st March 2026. This person hired a motivator for self who testified as Six.
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The next day, the 2nd of April 2026, at about 11 a.m., the accused person returned to the center and when Martin saw him, she went to the gate and the accused person informed her that he had returned to make the payments as he had promised the previous day. KW6 opened the gate for the accused person and brought him to the office of the coordinator of the center known as Miss Oang who testified as PW.
Miss introduced her to Mr. and informed her of their encounter conversation. The previous day, Mr. Dong uh Odong welcomed him and also interviewed him pertaining to the details of the child being rolled. The approved person inquired about the requirements and he was informed that he needed to pay a total of Uganda shillings 190,000 which would cover the registration dayare fees and uniform.
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The third person who said he had no cash from him asked her using mobile money and he did so on the telephone number of Miss Anette that is ask the person with a receipt And the same was issued to him and it was received number 2958 in the name of the left the office promising to return with a child and and the mother on Tuesday the following week. And I take notice that uh this was the week of Easter and the next working day was Tuesday of the following week.
The third person then walked out heading towards the gate as Miss N who was still in the office of Met down to keep the receipt booklet in the drawer.
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At that time, some children were in the compound playing and as Miss N rose up to look towards the gate so as to go and open for the accused person to exit the center, she saw the accused person bending while holding a child and she saw that it was that he was beating the child. She went outside to establish why he was beating the child only to reach there and find that the accused person who was holding the knife had already cut the neck of one child and this child was special.
And she was lying in a pool of blood.
And the person at that time was reaching out for another child.
Miss asked the accused person why he was cutting the children and she also threw one of the children's bicycles which were in the compound at him to scare him off. The accused person the child and ran after her threatening to cut her as well.
not feed ran away from the accused person while making an alarm, but she fell down and the accused person ran back to the children very fast. And by the time Miss Figy returned to prevent or stop him from cutting the children, she found when he had cut the second child and she again threw a bus at him as he was pursuing the third child.
The accused person again ran after Missy and when she fell down he drew the knife threatening to cut her as well.
That person then left Miss and went back to her children. And when she rose up, she found him catching the last child.
And the last child to be cut was at that time who also witnessed the cutting of some of the students together with other caretakers.
They are making arms which attracted one Cyrus Kenya who arrested the accused person.
He was joined by Moses the security guard Bashil and Timothy. When he was being arrested the accused person threw the knife over the chain fence. The accused was immediately locked up in the guard house at the gate to keep him away from the angry crowd which had formed at that time. And upon his arrest, the accused person was found with two new lives in his socks and were recovered from home.
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Three of the attacked children namely a Gideon Kisha again Tim and Ignishia were rushed to Wednesday medical center which is about 300 m away from the center hoping to save their lives. However, they were pronounced dead on arrival.
Ryan who was clearly dead was left at the ver but was also later taken to medical center by police.
The dead bodies of the four children were then taken to Mulago Campala capital city moary by police and postmortm examinations were done on them by Dr. Patang Abdu who described the injuries on all the bodies of the four children to have been on the necks and concluded that the cause of death for the four children was hypoalic shock due to deep part wounds deep injuries to the neck.
The police officers from Kabalagala divisional police visited the center which they termed as the primary scene of crime and recovered the killer knife and the and the two other knives and a backpack. which was also recovered on the accused person. Picked some suspected blood from the compound among others.
The samples recovered were subjected to DNA analysis and the report was admitted in evidence.
The police officers also removed the accused person from the guard house at the center amid the angry crowd which desired to lynch him and they took him to Kamalagana police station.
On 3rd April 2026, the accused person led the investigating team to his house uh which he had rented in Changer at Lamara Cross Tumba Zone. A search was conducted in the accused's house and a number of items were recovered which included electronic devices, two laptops, two mobile phones and three hard drives which were subjected to forensic analysis and the digital analysis report was also admitted as evidence.
The other items we covered were two American passports, a driver's license from the state of Virginia, a sanity report um dated 30th December 2025, and five new knives. among others.
The accused was examined on police form 24 um by Dr. Emmanuela who testified as PW11 and and he was found to be mentally normal.
It was upon that background the accused was indicted for murder in four counts.
Hence this case Okay. The accused person gave an unorn statement and called two witnesses in his defense. He had mentioned four witnesses but provided only the telephone numbers but without any physical address. Only two witnesses were reached using the telephone numbers provided by the accused person and efforts to trace the two were futile because the police the phone numbers were not on.
It is important to note here that one of the two numbers that he had provided that could not be reached was an American number.
In his defect, the accused person did not deny killing the four children, but stated that he did not act intentionally or deliberately.
He stated that although there were claims that he was completely mentally okay, there may have been other mental challenges that may have gone undetected and could have contributed to the death of the children.
He said he was not mentally okay and he also denied being minded in the killing of the children.
In respect to this, he referred to the book about war, which was part of the evidence of um EW18, the digital analyst, who analyzed his flash disc and found that he had saved a book entitled The Art of War by Sanju.
The person stated that she saved that long before and it cannot be said to apply to the killing of the children.
He also denied being deliberate and with four fault while making reference the prosecution evidence of PW18 which revealed that using his phone the accused person had made Google searches on subjects including ISIS beheading and for schools that teach young children. He said that although these searches suggest that he did he did it deliberately, there were factors that forced him to conduct them.
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He said that although these searches suggest that he did it deliberately, there were other factors that forced him to conduct those searches.
giving his testimony.
He He stated that because of this he tried to end it some way and somehow and according to him he tried several things to bring the whole thing to an end including fleeing the country robbing a bank and killing his father's his brother's family. He then concluded by saying that those same people whose names he chose not to disclose to the court influenced his actions of the second of April 2026.
He concluded his testimony by inviting the court not to honor the charges for murder against him because there were some circumstances that forced him to act the way he did on 2nd April 2026.
And this is the date of the unfortunate incident.
Okay. There is a burden and standard of proof. This is known. The prosecution is bears the burden to prove the uh all the ingredients of the offense or in four counts beyond reasonable doubt. And I will skip that and I go to the ingredients of the offense of murder.
of uh section 171 of the pen act chapter 128 uh which defines the offense of murder provides that any person who with malfor causes the death of another person by an unlawful act or omission commits murder.
For the accused person to be convicted of murder, the prosecution must prove each of the following essential ingredients beyond reasonable doubt.
One, death of a human being.
That the death was caused by some unlawful act.
That the unlawful act was actuated by master for thought. And that it is the accused person who caused the unlawful acts of death.
However, the third ingredient of the unlawful act being actuated by ma forought shall be addressed last and I will do it last.
Death of a human being or human beings.
Uh death may be pro may be proved by uh production of a postmortm report or evidence of witnesses who say that they knew the deceased and attended the burial also that dead body and in the instant case.
The fact that the infants gideon a ro or team Ignatia and Ryan are dead is not in dispute.
And in proof of this, the prosecution had used the evidence of Dr. Katang Abdul who performed the postmortem examinations on the bodies of the four children and he confirmed that they were dead. The parents of these children namely Apollo Stella. Apollo Stella is the mother of um of Gideon. Ket Marvin is the is the father of Kisha and Bazir Rollins is the father of Seyang and Okut Simon is the father of Ryan Od. They all confirmed that their children died and they were buried.
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Also the evidence of one of the care of one of the caretakers um Miss Nam PB and the coordinator of the center Miss Angoy who are the eyewitnesses to the attack on the children that resulted in their death also confirmed that they are dead and the prosecution also the evidence of the the divisional CI officer Kavalagela called Esite Jones.
They testified as PW5 and the sins of crimes officer. He testified as PW14. They testified that they saw the bodies of the four children.
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Having considered the evidence and in agreement with the joint opinion of the three assessors, I find that the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that the four infants namely Gideon, Tisha, Tim, Serang, Ignius, and Rayan are dead.
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Also, the fact that the death was unlawful is also not disputed uh given the uh account of the eyewitnesses uh to the offense and the nature of the injuries on the bodies of the four children.
And having considered the evidence and in agreement with the joint opinion of the three assessors, I find that the prosecution has also proved this um ingredient beyond reasonable doubts that um Gideon Kesha Agenos or Tim Serangas and Odan That was caused by an unlawful act.
the participation of the accused person.
Um, in order to prove um, participation, there should be credible direct or circumstantial evidence placing the accused person at a scene of the crime as an active participant in the commission of the offense.
And in the instant case that the accused the participation of the accused person is not contested because the accused person himself did not deny having killed his children.
Uh I will proceed uh to uh also to to look at the evidence that the prosecution produced to support the fact that it was the accused person who killed these four children.
The offense occurred in broad daylight, specifically at about at 11:00 a.m. or thereabouts. The accounts of the eyewitnesses to the crime, namely Miss Fibbe Nami and Miss Anit Odong Auy, the caretaker and coordinator respectively, revealed that the accused person with whom they had just been interacting in the office of Mr. was seen gruesomely and brutally cutting the four children with a sharp knife which he threw out of the chain link fence upon seeing the first responders to the scene.
The prosecution further aduced the evidence of the sins of crimes officer Mr. Mutaka Jim his PW14 and the anderite James the lead investigator PW15 who testified the effect that they responded and went to the center which they referred to as the primary scene and they found that the accused person had already been arrested by the first responders and was being kept in the guard house to keep him away from the angry mob that wanted to lynch him. PW15 James then rearrested him and took him to Kawagana police station.
police. The prosecution also used forensic evidence that implicates the accused person by placing him at the scene of the crime, namely evidence of AIP or Dongo Emmanuel.
He's a CCTV analyst and he testified that police CCTV cameras on the roads and some private CCTV cameras showed that a motor vehicle RAV 4 was seen being driven from Changa where the chief person was residing through Nawa until it reached Renewal Circle in Gava where it was captured by the private camera of Renewal Circle on 1st April 26.
Fore and this court takes judicial notice that the renewal circle which is part of the GMA community church complex is directly behind the center.
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Upon parking the motor vehicle in the parking yard of Renewal Circle, the accused person was seen aligning from the vehicle and walking towards the center. This corroborates the evidence of PW6 Miss Phoebe who testified that the accused person had come to the center on the 1st of April 2026 and had approached the gate of the center on foot. The accused person remained at the gate from where he had a conversation with PW6 regarding the requirements for enrolling his child at a center.
The CCTV analysis report also revealed the accused person being ridden on a border border on the day of the incident 2nd April 2026 at about at 10 1613 that is 10:00 clock uh 16 minutes after 10 and 13 seconds.
And he was carrying a black backpack.
While in court pro uh the witness who was PW13 played the footage and the and the images which clearly confirmed the movement of the motor vehicle on the 1st of April 2026 and a border border covering the accused person on 2nd April 2026.
For as the defense council during his submission claimed that the images were not clear, it is not true because the accused person could be clearly identified. while when he alllighted the vehicle at Renewal Circle on 1st April 2026 and also while on a border border on 2nd of April 2026 Six.
The prosecution had earlier on the evidence of PW8 is called Hashima, one of the directors of of Troop Car Rental Uganda, who testified that the motor vehicle belongs to his company and the accused had hired it from him to be used on the 1st and 2nd of April, 2026 on self Five.
However, the accused person used the motor vehicle only on 1st April 2026 because it got mechanical defect. This testimony was corroborated by the CCTV evidence where the accused person was seen in the footage of 1st April 2026 pushing the car the vehicle at Shell Tigum House Ginger Road at 200 p.m.
with the assistance of the staff of Shell.
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The accused had alone called Hashim told him about the policy and Hashim had advised him to park it at house in the footage of second April 2026.
The accused could easily be could be easily identified putting on a checkered black, white, and gray shirt and black sunglasses.
when he was in a border.
He was putting on and this is corroborated by the evidence of the so that is the sins of crimes officer and the investigator who recovered uh the said sunglasses stained with blood at the primary scene and took the said shirt from the accused person upon reserve and submitted both items for the DNA analysis.
The DNA analysis revealed that the cutings from the shirt contained the DNA of the accused person.
While the sunglasses which were stained with blood had mixed DNA of both the accused person and of Roth whose body had been labeled as body 39 by the sins of the Prosecution also released evidence that the accused person was cutting the children with a knife which he threw over the chain link fence upon seeing the first responders at the scene. The knife was recovered by the scenes of crimes officer. It was a kitchen knife with a silver handle and black blade with the label reading mink fing. And while at the laboratory, a a swab from the knife handle was taken and and also a swab from the blade was taken. And it was established that the handle had a male DNA profile which belonged to the accused person.
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Also, the blood stains on the blade of the knife were for body three and body 37. And body three was for Odan while body 37 was for Serang Ignicious.
the accus whereas the accused in his defense did not um deny the killings of the children.
The defense u this defense would be discussed at length while discussing the last ingredients.
during the submissions of uh council for the accused person attempted to suggest that the accused person was not adequately implicated for the offense.
And his argument was based on the fact that whereas PW6 and PW7 testified that there were first they were first responders there were first responders namely Cyrus and Moses who are said to have apprehended the person the accused person and kept him in the guard house. None of those first responders was called as a witness and he wondered where exactly the police found the accused person to be arresting.
I note that for it is prudent to it was prudent to have one of those witnesses to come to court, failure to have them did not affect the prosecution evidence.
At least PW6 and PW7, that is Phoebe and and testified that they saw the accused person being apprehended and being kept in the guard house and PW 15 and PW14 that is the the investigator, the lead investigator and the so-al the scenes of crimes officer. They confirmed finding the accused person having been arrested and kept in the guard house. That evidence was not challenged at all in cross examination. And in light of all the other evidence placing the accused person at the primary scene of crime, it is my finding that the accused um that that the evidence that the accused was apprehended in the act of slaughtering the children, kept in the guard house and later picked up by police is true.
In light of the above, it is the finding of this court and in agreement with the joint opinion of the assessors that the prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that the accused person caused the death of the four children namely Gideon Kesha Aro Timas and Odyan.
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I will go to the last ingredient and that is the ingredients of marisa for thought.
Marissa for is defined in section 174 of the penal code act and the summary of it is that um somebody is might shall be deemed to be established by evidence provided for by the following circumstances. An intention to cause the death of any person whether that person is the person actually killed or not. They acknowledge that the act of mission causing death will probably cause the death of some person.
Whether that person is the person actually killed or not. Although the knowledge is accompanied by indifference whether death is caused or not or by a wish that it may not be caused. In summary that you must have had an intention to kill somebody or you had knowledge that your acts or your failure to act would actually result into the death of a person. Fore speech.
So mar is a mental element and it is not easy to prove with direct evidence.
But inferences may be made from a number of things including the nature of the weapon used, the part of the body targeted, the nature of injuries, and the conduct of the accused person before, during, and after the commission of the offense.
Uh prior planning or prior threats of the accused may be used to marr To prove this ingredient, the prosecution abused evidence from eyewitnesses to the offense that is uh Phoebe and Annet who testified that they saw the accused person aggressively and gruesomely Cut the legs of the four children with a knife.
This evidence was corroborated by the by the findings of the postmortem examinations of the four children's bodies and by the testimony of Dr. Tatangori Abdul who examined all of them and described the injuries on the deceased as follows.
report and I will go in the detail of the injuries for each of the deceased children. I begin with a Tech Gideon. is said to have had a 14 cm long open wound on the right side of the neck located at 66 cm from the right hem of the neck.
The wound was longer than its depth characterized by smooth edge, regular margins, no breathing fibers, marginal contusion and the wound was deep transsecting through the esophagus, trachea, internal, jugular vein, cut fractures And the above descriptions were consistent with deep cut wounds.
Okay. Kesha Aeno wrote or team was said to have a 9 cm long open wound on the right side of the neck at 67 cm from the right hem and 1 cm from the anterior mid midline and the wound was longer than it was deep.
say the wound was big transcting through the skin underlying neck muscles, the trachea, esophagus, major neck vessels and nerves.
And he concluded or he noted that this findings were consistent with big cut wounds.
Serenicious was said to have had a cime a 14 cm long open wound on the right side of the neck which was longer than it was deep.
The wound was deep transecting through the skin and underlying neck muscles injuring the internal jugular vein.
He found that the above descriptions were consistent with beep cut injuries.
This one also had another 4 cm long cut wound located on the right submandibular region.
We go to Odan, the last child.
This one was said to have had a 9 cm long deep cut wound located on the right side of the neck.
It was a deep cut wound dissecting through the underlying neck muscles, neck vessels, trachea, oifus and transsection of a spinal cord.
The cause of death for all the children was established to be hypoic shock due to cut wounds to the neck.
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All the post the postmortem reports for the four children were admitted and marked as exhibits 1 2 3 and four respectively.
This evidence is further corroborated by the evidence of the scene of crimes officer uh Mr. Mutaka Jini who visited the primary scene of crime. This is the center. Immediately after the commission of the crime, he processed it and made a report which was admitted um as PEX10.
And this is what he said that at the center he found the body of an infant on the veranda and it was identified to him as that of Odan and he mar he uniquely marked that body as three.
On this body, he observed one deep cut injury on the right side of the neck with cutings through the neck bones and muscles.
And he took pictures of this body and they are in his report on page 11 and 12.
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Shortly thereafter, he went to W Medical Center. This is the secondary scene where he found the bodies of the three children and they were identified to him as a Gideon.
He and he uniquely labeled him his body number 32. Serang Ignicious number 37 and Kesha again wrote Tim was labeled 39.
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interview. This is the scenes of crimes officer. Further testified that all presented similar fresh injuries of deep cuts on the right side of the neck which went through the muscles and bones.
This court also observed the photographs of the bodies of the four infants and confirmed the gruesomeness of the attack on all of them as evidenced by the nature of the injuries.
The murder weapon, which is a knife, which caused those grave and fatal injuries on the children, was also recovered at the primary scene of crime just behind a chainlink fence after being thrown by the accused person. And it was also admitted as evidence.
So we have those grave injuries and the knife that caused them.
The above evidence would be sufficient to prove Marisa for thought because there would be no other inference that a person pounces on defenseless innocent babies and goes ahead to cut their necks as if slaughtering a goat or a chicken in that accurate and precise manner other than that of marriage. A forought However, the defense heavily contested this ingredient and insisted that the accused person was not in a righteous state of mind to form an intention to commit the offense of murder.
The achieved person in his unspawn statement stated that he did not act intentionally or deliberately. And although there were claims that he was completely mentally okay, there may have been other mental challenges that may have gone undetected which could have contributed to the death of the children.
He insisted he was not mentally okay.
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He had he had done a search and saved a book on the art of war. He stated that this he did it long ago and had it had nothing to do with the death of the children.
He also denied being deliberate and with with four thought while making reference to the evidence of the Google searches that he made using his phone, specifically the search for ISIS beheading and for schools that teach young children and he said that whereas these searches may suggest that it he did it deliberately there were other factors forcing him to make those searches which factors he chose not to disclose to the You have also interpreted the factors.
Those factors he did not disclose them to the court.
The chief person further stated that he was under the control of some people whom he occasionally referred to as friends and were in three categories.
He also alluded to the fact that between January 2026 and March 2026, he entered into a distressing period because he was contending with some people who were surveilling him, making demands from him and they threatened to kill him.
They began according to him they began demanding for money and he noticed that they had all the capabilities and they were following him closely and as a result left his neighbor the neighborhood of Bunga where he was staying and resorted to sleeping. on the streets.
The accused person stated that as a result of this, he tried to end it somewhere and somehow so as to bring the whole thing to an end. And according to him, he tried to flee the country, tried to rob a bank and tried to kill his brother's family. He then said that those people whom he at times referred to as his friends during his testimony had something to do with his actions of 2nd April 2026.
He invited the court not to honor the charges of murder because there were some circumstances that forced him to act the way he did on 2nd of April.
Unfortunately, he neither stated the circumstances he claimed forced him to act that way, nor did he disclose the identities of his friends who may have compelled his actions on 2nd April 2026.
No, he did not state the circumstances and he also did not disclose the identities of those friends of his.
And because he made an statement in his defense, he could not be probed to give more information.
raised a defense of insanity.
>> The defense of insanity is provided for under section 11 of the penalty act chapter 128.
And this is what it provides that a person is not criminally responsible for an act or omission.
If at the time of being the act or making the omission he or she is through any disease affecting his or her mind incapable of understanding what he or she is doing or knowing that he or she ought not to do the act or omission Although his or her mind is affected by disease, if that disease does not in fact produce upon his or her mind one or other of the effects mentioned in this section in reference to that actor mission.
I will summarize this to mean that the accused somebody is must show that he had a disease of the mind and as a result of the disease of the mind.
He was incapable of knowing the nature and quality of his actions at the time when that action is said to have been done.
That's the summary of this law.
So if it is found that actually he had a disease of mind and that disease of mind made him incapable of understanding what he was doing and what its consequences would be. That would be a total defense to him.
And um for the offense of insanity to stand, the accused person must satisfy the ground set out under the Magnatan rule and the test is purely cognitive. And the defense must show whether the accused understood his or her actions or that his or her actions were wrong.
The dispense of insanity is twofold.
First, that an insane defendant does not have control over his or her conduct.
similar to somebody who is sleepwalking, not knowing what they're doing. And secondly, that the defendant does not have the ability to form a criminal intent.
Without the ability to control conduct or the understanding that conduct is evil or wrong by society standards, an insane person or defendant presumably will commit crimes again and again.
This person must not be in control of anything to do with himself is he cannot control his actions as because of the disease of the mind.
These rules require that the three tests should be proved. One, that an individual suffers from a defect of reason which is caused by a disease of the mind and that as a result he or she does not know the nature and quality of not know like the accused person said that he was not mentally okay then it becomes his responsibility to prove to the court that actually that was the condition that he was in at the time the offense was committed.
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The defense of insanity seeks to do away with an essential requirement of mara forought and it seeks to prove that the accused person did not have the intention to cause death. Neither did he have knowledge that such an act or omission would cause the death. And this is because of the presumption of sanity which is provided for in section 10 of the penord act.
There is a presumption of sanity and it provides in section 10 provides that every person is presumed to be of sound mind and to have been of sound mind at any time which comes in question until the contrary is good.
This presumption of sanity puts the burden on anyone who claims insanity as a defense to prove that he or she was not in the right mental state at the time of the act or omission.
And I have already said that when anyone advances the detention of insanity, he bears the burden to prove it, though not on as a higher standard as the prosecution has to.
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Having laid down the above principles from the law and the decided cases, I will proceed to evaluate the evidence aduced by the accused in a bid to prove the claim or the defense of insanity.
No, I have said has laid down the above principles from the law and the decided cases on the defense of insanity.
I will need to establish whether the accused person was suffering from the disease of the mind at the time the offense was committed.
Whether that disease of the mind rendered him incapable of knowing the nature and quality of his actions and whether he knew or not whether he knew or did not know that what he was doing was wrong by reason of that disease of mind.
as a result of the disease of the mind.
From the onset, I need to state that the achieved person was the only one who testified that on 2nd April 2026 when he committed this senior's crime, he was not mentally okay.
As already indicated, he did not state what he was suffering from apart from the claim that he was under immense stress from the period between January to 26 to to March 2026 as a result of the people whom he occasionally referred to as his friends.
But like I already mentioned, he chose to conceal the identities of those people from court.
I will note at this point that I keenly observed the accused person as he gave his evidence and I could see that he was withholding some information.
especially when it came to disclosing the names of those people.
Apart from this claim, there is no other evidence that was abused by the accused person in a bid to prove the existence of the disease of the mind to avail him the defense of insanity.
for the accused personally argued that the prosecution failed to prove that on 2nd April 2026 when the offense was committed, the accused was not under the influence of mental illness.
With all due respect, this argument was not legally backed and was misguided because when the accused person chose to raise insanity as his defense, the burden to prove that insanity shifted to him in light of the presumption of sanity under section 10 of the penal code act 128.
counsel for the accused person further insisted that there was evidence on record from the prosecution provided by Dr. Emmanuel who testifies as witness number 11. He's a police surgeon and he's also a psychiatrist who examined the accused person on the 7th of April 2026 showing that the accused person has ever been admitted to mental hospital.
What was his argument? He insisted that prosecution witness said that the accused person had ever been to Regarding this evidence, I will need to provide context so it is not used to mislead the court.
The evidence of PW11 as contained in PF24 and in his oral testimony in court is that he examined the accused person on 7th April 2026. his psychiatric and mental assessment of the accused person, he found the following and I will quote verbatim.
He had normal behavior, calm, cooperative, speech was coherent, his memory intact, and he exhibited good judgment.
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In that report, Dr. made the following note as information from the accused during the assessment and I'm also quoting it. He had history of past mental illness treated between 2016 to 2025 for schizophrenia associated with both auditory and visual hallucinations. He killed his 2 to three yearear-old brother in 2016 or 2017 reportedly to save him from the troubles of this world. He also attempted suicide in 2023 and he was also a sec cell patient on treatment. The findings above are suggestive of a mental condition with psychotic episode. Further mental assessment is necessary since no medical documents were availed and he was the only source of information.
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for the above. The word is not mentioned anywhere besides the killed person as he gave his evidence never at all mentioned having ever been admitted in mental hospital.
It is important to note that the only witness in the entire trial who made mention of was DW2 whose identity has been concealed for his protection but he's a biological elder brother to the accused person only witness Yes.
He testified that in January 2022, he learned that the accused person was in hospital and then he went to inquire about the reasons for his admission there. He was informed by the in charge of the hospital that the case under which he was admitted in the facility was very sensitive and declined to avail any information.
2020 The place under which she was admitted was very sensitive.
He further stated that his father his father stated during cross examination that he left without knowing why the accused person had been admitted in despite having disclosed to the internet that the accused was his young brother.
However, during the cross examination of DW2 that is the brother of the accused person, the prosecution had an explanation for the accused admission in that time which they put to the witness and according to them the accused had murdered his young half brother called Freeman and to escape criminal pulpability he was taken to mental hospital to disguise as if he killed the child due mental illness and from there he was whisked to the United States of America where he stayed until sometime in 2025 and he returned to Uganda.
I find this proposition credible because if indeed the accused person had been admitted because of a medical condition, there would have been no justification for concealing that from his own brother.
Besides, they would not have informed him that the case under which the accused person was admitted was very sensitive.
It can be believed.
the accused person himself would have mentioned that he had never been admitted in either the police sergeant Dr. or Dr. Roger Agenda who testified as PW2 and he's a psychiatrist at Care International Hospital Campala.
Again, Roger examined the accused person on 30th December 2025.
at the request of the accused person for a san a sanity assessment. But the accused person did not inform him that he had ever been to To the contrary, the accused person informed Dr. agenda Roger that the consultation with him which is started December was his index of as consultation with a psychiatrist in his own life and I will detach the days of agenda in this I also need to observe that though um DW2 DW2 is the biological brother of the accused person though they are brothers he testified that they don't closely relate and he had not seen the accused person in the last 5 years but only saw him atala police station after his arrest in respect of this case.
He also did not testify to knowing the accused person to suffer from any mental illness.
In the absence of any medical evidence to support the claim of insanity, this court would have expected at least evidence from a family member of the accused person to speak to his alleged mental illness.
The brother of the accused person informed the court that he shares both parents with the accused person and they are both still alive and they live in Uganda.
If it was true that indeed the accused person suffers from any disease of the mind, either his father or mother would have been eager to come to this court to relay that information with some evidence.
It is also important to note that the details of the witnesses who came to testify for the defense were punished by the accused himself. But he chose not to call any of his parents as his witnesses. Who would have been better placed to testify to the claim of insanity and and or any other disease of the mind?
considering the above. I would still proceed to pause this question supposing it was indeed true that the accused person has ever been in Utika in 2020 as stated by his brother. of what relevance would treat be in relation to this offense which is alleged to have been committed on 2nd April 2026 given the legal principles regarding the defense of insanity that the disease of the mind must be present at the time of the commission of the offense and must have prevented one from knowing what he or she's doing and that what she's doing is Oh, two front table.
It is my considered view that in the absence of any evidence that the accused person was suffering from the disease of the mind as at the time of commission of this offense.
He's being admitted in 2020 would not be of any relevance to this case.
I also need to know that in regards to the issue surrounding the admission inhaba that shortly um it happened I I need to know that in regards the issue surrounding the admission ina shortly into the evidence of DW2 the brother of the accused person when he mentioned The word vaga person for the accused person made an application seeking for the orders of this court to order some doctors from to come and confirm that the accused person has ever been ina also confirm that he's incapable or or to to to establish whether he was capable to follow the proceedings. But this was after he had given his defense.
I did not find calling anyone from relevant to this case and I declined to grant that prayer and I made a detailed ruling which is on in a further bid to support the claim of being mentally unwell due to the distress said to have been between January and March 2026.
The accused person testified that he abandoned his home in Bunga and started living on the streets. And to prove this defense, he had used the evidence of DW3 who whose identities were also withheld for his security. And he informed the court that he was 25 years old living on the street.
And he had seen the accused person only twice while he was in Cheni together with 40 children aged between 7 and 10 years.
And then his age Okay, I'll summarize his evidence. He testified that he saw the accused went to Chiseni and um when the the street children saw him, they requested for some water to drink and he offered them food which he actually paid for. And as he was leaving he requested the witness for a contact his contact and they shared contact numbers and the next time he came with water he little juran and gave it to the witness with the other children.
That is the summary of his evidence.
And he told him that the reason he wanted his telephone contact is that whenever he would need the children, he would help him to gather the children.
Council for the accused person while relying on the claim of being on the street testifi uh submitted and said that it is not possible for a normal person to leave their home and start living on the street.
But this court finds that there was no evidence that actually the accused person has ever lived on the street. He only went twice to this little girl in Also, this court notes that there was also evidence that as at the time of his arrest, he was not on the street. He had a home in Changer as testified by uh the landlord called Joel Mai. He testified at PW10.
In light of the above, I the appeal person failed to aduce any evidence to support this claim that he was not mentally okay on 2nd April 2026 when he gruesomely and brutally murdered the innocent infants.
The other probable defense that would be available the accused person given his uh from his testimony would be a defense of diminished responsibility and this one is provided for under section 1771 of the pen code act.
And uh this one also um it is where the when a person is found guilty of murder or being a party to the murder of another and the court is satisfied that the person was suffering from an abnormality an abnormality of mind arising out of arrested or Development of minds.
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Even with that the the law provides in subsection two that if you raise that as your defense, it is you to prove that you are s suffering from an abnormality of the mind.
Char looking at the evidence that the person abused there is nowhere he's talking about a retardation of his mind.
Uh the only issue that the accused person suffers from and was talked about by many witnesses is cle cell disease.
And when Dr. Agenda was asked as to whether cell anemia is not an underlying cause for mental illness. He he he said it is not but it is a risk factor.
and he said this is as a result of too much pain and also the strength of the medication for SQL cells. But he let me to add that when he was examining the accused person, the accused person did not present any symptoms of the the mental of of any mental disabilities that may have been caused by SEL disease.
for the accused development. They argue that upon his arrest, the accused person was found with painkillers. It included the chlorophella and this court should find that this medicine was treatment for mental illness. But due respect, this argument is not supported by any evidence.
No, he said that when he was arrested he was found with painkillers and the painkillers included dlora. This court should find that this medicine was used to treat to treat a mental illness was being used to treat a mental illness.
And I said that with all the respect to council, this argument was not supported by any evidence because even when he was asked what kind of mental illness the accused was treating, he had no answer to that.
He said he did not know the that he was cheating.
In light of the above, I also find that the defense of diminished responsibility is not available to the accused person.
On the contrary, the prosecution had evidence to show that at all material times, the accused was of a normal mental status and in qual of his actions as will be discussed and analyzed below.
Prosecution abuse evidence of a sanity medical report which had been authored by Dr. Roger Roger is a psychiatrist at CIHK.
This sanitary report medical sanitary medical report was found in the house of an of the accused person during the search that was conducted on 3rd uh April 2026 and it was admitted as an exhibit and I verified it and confirmed it to be authentic and Dr. Rogers agenda testified to it.
He testified that on 30th December 2025, he received the accused person as his client with a a request to conduct a sanity examination and furnish him with a sanity report to be submitted to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the immigration department.
and reporter Ministry of Internal Affairs immigrations.
He went ahead and did a psychiatric and mental examination on the accused person and that report the certified copy from CKHK was also admitted as an exhibit.
According to him, the accused person presented himself as a 30-year-old single Christian by religion, resident of Bunga, and self employed mainly as a commercial farmer.
He testified that he carried out a psychiatric interview which involves asking the client many times open-ended questions with the aim of establishing or enlisting whether the client has any mental disorder.
Upon examination, the following were his findings and I'm going to read them verbatim.
He reports no history of excessive sadness or loss of interest in pleasurable activities.
She has no history of excessive happiness or increased goal directed activity.
He has no history of alcohol or substance use, although he occasionally took alcohol.
a history of hearing voices or seeing things others could not see.
He has no history of excessive fears or worries and has never had a seizure.
He denies any traumatic experiences and sleeps well.
This is his index visit to a mental health personnel and has never been on any psychiatric medication.
He is a known patient of SLE cell disease and regularly takes his medications.
He has no other chronic medical conditions.
He is the third born of four children.
Both their parents are alive and well.
There is no known mental history in the family.
That was a psychiatric assessment. The mental status examination revealed the following. Still by the same doctor.
He is a middle-aged man who appears his age.
He's well nourished and keenly calm and keeps eye contact.
No odd behavior was noted throughout the interview.
His speech is of sound. His his speech is of normal rate and volume and is generally coherent and fluent.
His thoughts are logical with no preoccupation over valid ideas or delusions.
He has a evilic mood congrent with addict and has no perceptual or cognitive disturbance.
He concluded his diagnosis as follows.
On Christopher Oko has no established mental disorder.
I therefore affirm that on Christopher Oko is saying and mentally fit to live and work in Uganda.
The prosecution also had used the evidence of Dr. Emmanuel.
Uh that one is a police surgeon. He also did a mental examination on him on the 7th of April. This was now after the commission of this offense 5 days after and these were his findings.
He had normal behavior, calm, cooperative, speech was coherent, his memory intact and exhibited good judgment.
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Okay. His thought process and content was normal but he believed in wealth by human sacrifice.
He was able to explain their reasons for killing the children as fortune hunting or enrichment.
He got the idea on recording childhood folktales of getting wealth by sacrificing people.
The third person in his testimony stated that from January to March 2026, he underwent distress and encountered people who influenced his actions on second April 2026.
I find this move by the accused person very calculated because he smartly targets a period immediately after his sanity and mental examination done on 30th December at IHK at his own request and instance. Yes.
Now I'm saying that the accused person is smart. He brings the period after the examination.
know that we don't know what's happened um after the 30th of December.
He intelligently and smartly supposes that his distress happened after that examination. It would mean therefore that the distress that the district after 30th December is the reason for his actions of second April 2026.
He also smartly and intelligently brings this period of his distress to fall before his next psychiatric and mental examination that was done on 7th April 2026 by Dr. Emanuel on police form 24.
In light of the above smart move by the accused person, this court will proceed to examine and assess his conduct and lifestyle between January and 2nd April 2026 when he committed the offense to determine whether or not he was mentally functional.
Prosecution produced against the evidence of Mr. Paul Mukasa Paul uh he was PW9 and he was the landlord of the accused person in Bonga for a period between November 2025 and March 2026 and he testified that while renting he was renting his house. The accused person was a very good person relating well with others and that he did not notice anything odd or irregular with his conduct.
According to the evidence of Mai Jo. Now that's the landlord of of Changer where the accused person was staying at the time of this offense. The person approached him for a house to rent. that this person approached him for a house to rent on 16th March 2026 and he came with a broker.
The artist entered into a transaction with him to rent a house for 4 months.
He was informed that the monthly rent house rent was 400,000 and he was supposed to pay 4 months up front and further informed the accused was further informed that payments were supposed to be made in the bank. The police then requested for the bank account details which after which he went and paid in the bank and returned a bank slip of to the witness.
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>> The prosecution also addressed the evidence of Hashima, the director of Trip Car Rental Uganda for self drive, who testified that the accused person first contacted his company via the business WhatsApp number on the 12th of March 2026 and he was inquiring about their car hire services.
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He told the witness that he needed the car the next day. The next day the accused called the witness and told him he was already at a meeting location but because he had not confirmed the witness that is duma was not there had not reached and when he reached he found when the accused person had already left this was a freedom city mall.
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Okay. Then the accused contacted the witness again on 14th March and said that he had dressed cuz he was rushing somewhere and couldn't wait but he would rent the car the next the following week.
I'm giving all this detail because I'm trying to show the conduct or the actions of the accused person during the period he says he was in distress.
The third person contacted the witness again on the 31st of March through our shop and told him that he went he wanted he needed to rent the car again for 2 days. That is first April and second the 26th.
The witness then offered to deliver him the car to deliver to him the car that evening of 31st March which the accused was agreeable to. The witness then requested for directions to the location and he was informed that it was in Changer.
The witness further asked for a Google pin which the accused person provided and following the Google pin the witness was led directly to the house where the accused was staying in China.
The approved person received the vehicle and also gave the witness his American passport and American driving license for his identification.
Uh the witness took photographs of them and handed back handed them back the accused person and the accused asked for the mode of payments. He was told that he could pay with mobile money and he transferred 8 388,000 shillings for car higher for 2 days on self drive.
He also testified that later in that night, a fifth person called him asking for the car keys because he had forgotten to give them to him when he delivered the motor vehicle earlier in the evening. The witness then told him that she would send the keys with a border border rider and as early as 700 a.m. on first the border border had delivered the keys. He was even able to direct a border border to where his home was in Changer.
On April 202, on 1st April 2026 at around 11, the witness testified that the accused called him and told him that the car had mechanical issues. And when he asked his location, he told him he was in Bonga and he sent a mechanic to fix the car.
And after about 1 and a half hours, the accused person again called the witness and told him that he was at Ginger Road round but informed him that the car had failed again.
The witness then advised him to drive to shell ginger road and park the car there. what the app person did.
I I examined the WhatsApp communication between the accused person and the witness regarding the hiring of the motor vehicle which was extracted and um incorporated in the digital forensic examination report and I have found that the conversation between the accused person And the witness regarding the car hire was very accurate and coherent.
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The appealed person clearly knew what he wanted, clearly directed the witness to his home at Namara clos in Changer and even went ahead to give more details that where he resided that he of where he resided that it was the first gate on the left side and that he had told the custodian to wait for him because it was raining.
In addition to that, the accused person provided a Google pin to his location.
The accused person was actually in total control of his actions and was very mentally functional because his communication was not only coherent but also systematic and logical and had a very good sense of judgment which negates his claim of being under immense distress during this period that prevented him from understanding the nature and quality of his actions. on the 2nd of April 2026.
Okay. The pro prosecution also added the evidence of Emmanuel. This is the CCTV analyst uh who whose evidence uh reveals the movement of the motor vehicle RAV 4 uh from Challenger on the day on on on first of April and it stopped through uh through Nawa and Kabala until it parked at renewal. Oh, circle.
circle. At the circle, the third person was captured by private camera of the of the same circle as he parked the vehicle. He found other vehicles already parked in the yard and he maneuvered and found a suitable parking slot for his vehicle.
As the accused looked out of the car, he checked the door to confirm that he had locked it. Upon his return, the accused checked the left front tire of the motor vehicle.
Is this conduct of a person who is suffering from a disease of the mind to prevent him from understanding the nature and quality of his actions and therefore unable to control them?
I answer this question in the negative and make a finding that there is a person who has in full control of his actions and his proper sense of judgment and The prosecution also evidence of his leaving Renewal Circle up to the point at Shell where he parked the car because it had a mechanical problem.
The accused person was seen pushing the vehicle being assisted by the staff of Shell and also making phone calls.
And the PW the owner of the car, the one who had hired the car to him confirmed that while at Shell they talked on phone.
So my conclusion on that is that he was in control of whatever he was doing and he was he had a good sense of judgment since he didn't tell that the car has a mechanical problem and knew who to call to solve it.
I also now go to the events at the gate of the center that is the scene of crime of 1st April 2026 when the accused the accused went and stood at the at the gate and had a conversation with PW6 that is um Fibbe testified to the conversation that he had she had with the accused person regarding the enrollment of his child.
Yes. He said he he had a child who was 3 years and when he was told that they don't take 3 years, he should take to the nursery section. He he said he had tried but he had been advised to take his child to a place where there are other children because she was not so sure and she would be lying with the many children.
The wife has said she supposed to Phoebe that when she's allowed to when he is allowed to adore the child, Phoebe should monitor the child for him and and when he pick she picks up then he can take her to a nursery section.
He then asked Phoebe what was required to enroll this child and Phoebe told her told him all the requirements and he promised to return the next day to make payments.
On the next day, which is the date of the incident, the 2nd of April, 2026, the accused person returned to the gates of the center.
And when Fib saw him, he she went to him and he told her that he was he had come to make payments so that his child could be uh enrolled at the center.
Phil then introduced took him and introduced him to Miss Anbw7 and they also engaged in a deep conversation regarding the child.
The detail of the conversation is in the judgment, but it it it shows a coherent person who was in control of his actions and his speech and did not present any odd behavior to Miss Phoebe and Miss Anette.
And when they when he was asked when he asked for the requirements and he was told 120 for dayare fees, 60 for uniform and 10,000 for registration. He mentally calculated that before Mr. Nate could use a calculator.
It is shortly after that interruption, a very normal coherent interaction that when he moved out, he launched this brutal and fatal attack on the defenseless innocent children.
It is the finding of this court that at the time of the attack the accused person did not suffer from any disease of the mind. He was in full control of his actions and Miss Fib testified that this event, the act of of of of slaughtering these children took about 7 minutes. And I can believe her because looking at the time when he sent the money on Lisa Net's phone to the time when he made a phone call an emergency helpline of police is a very short time.
It is actually 14 minutes. So it is not possible that at that at the time of cutting the children is when he lost his control due to any disease of mind.
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besides giving this fatal attack on the on the innocent children PW6 and PW7 that's missib and miss they testify that when they saw him cutting the children and came intervene. He threatened to cut them as well.
And then when he saw himself in danger of the crowd that was angry, he had the mental ability now to call police for rescue.
police.
I also take note of his preliminary interview with uh ASP James where he informed the witness that he was staying in Changer and that he had bought knives and he had the mental ability to take the such thing to his home. Moreover, rented premises where he had been for less than 2 weeks. But he could locate that home and live during the search the lives were found new lives and they were admitted as exits.
I have also found it necessary to in this judgment examine the lifestyle and actions of the accused person before this offense establish whether he was mentally functional or not. And I looked at at the the the bank accounts.
The accurate person had three bank accounts, two dollar accounts and one shillings account, Uganda shillings account. And I have analyzed the bank account statements and I find that he was transacting normally on these accounts.
Account is able to transact from wallet to account from account to wallet is is buying is paying withdrawing money for paying rent. They actually also withdrew money for hiring farmland and during the search there was an an agreement for Alise a hire of landing mayor for farming. This appeused person who wants this court to believe that he was mentally ill is making investment decisions.
The prosecution also provided evidence of Google searches that the accused person conducted on his phone and I have found them relevant to this case.
PW8 led evidence in effect to the fact that the accused says the laptops and phones indicated that the accused had made searches about schools near M.
And among the schools that he searched is among the places that he searched is church closed gaba.
Church close >> and the center where this unfortunate event happened is on church clos items such as rental hours of operation trip car rental Uganda and we have evidence of him hiring apart from trip car rental on self drive the day prior. Prior to the this unfortunate incident, He's also searching how many kilometers does 14 lit get on a ra. He's searching about bunga police station. He's searching about ISIS behaving and he's also searching about firearm license in Uganda.
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Okay. And um I have also noted that the accused person denied having conducted these searches in in preparation for this crime. But I reject his claim because whereas he the way he hacked or slaughter these children is how I take judicial notice that ISIS is Islamic state of Iraq and Syria. is a widely recognized widely recognized by international governments and organization as a major terrorist organization and is known for committing atrocities including genocide, public beheadings and conducting targeted violent attacks.
I have no doubt in my mind that the search for ISIS beheadings prepared the accused person to launch this fatal attack on the defenseless children.
As already observed and clearly stated by PW6, the attack that led to the death of the four infants took less than 7 minutes.
It is only a person with specialized training in beheading and the heart and mind of a terrorist that would do what the accused person did.
It is my further finding that this very specialized training and meticulous planning and premeditation strongly negates any claims of insanity.
I have labored to analyze all the above evidence to rule out any claims by the accused person or any other person that may believe his claim of insanity as his defense. is to run away from accounting for this hideous crime.
and interpret that. Well, I have labored to analyze all the above evidence to rule out any claims by the accused person or any other person that he may believe his claim of insanity as his defense to run away from accounting for this hideous crime.
Go to Having done that, I conclusively find that the accused person was very sane on 2nd April 2026 when he gruesomely slaughtered four innocent souls.
Therefore, defense of insanity, no diminished responsibility is available to him.
On the contrary, I find that and I find I'm in agreement with the joint opinion of the three assessors that the prosecution has proved that the accused person unlawfully called the death of the three infants with malice of forant This court finds that the prosecution has proved all the ingredients of the offense of murder in the four counts against the accused person Christopher.
The accused person is accordingly found guilty of the murder of count one of will count two count three count agreement with the joint opinion of the assessor.
I hereby convict Christopher of the offense of murder.
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Count three for the murder of Ignatius and count four for the murder of Ryan as indicted.
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>> Yes. What is your comment?
>> My comment first of all I'm called Jeremiah Henry. My comment is that we I'm happy on behalf of the rest of the world that now we have won the conviction. We are only waiting for the sentence. But I would like to thank the judiciary especially the trial judge.
She has done her best. The prosecution has produced all the evidence to prove the incredence of murder. But my opinion is one I don't believe in in killing someone who has killed somebody because someone who if you kill someone for murdering a person is not going to suffer. A dead person cannot suffer. My opinion is that be sentenced to life in prison. Let him the rest of his life if maybe he's going to live for how long we don't know. Let him spend in prison. You want him to be sentenced to life imprisonment as is eating our taxpayers money. Is that being fair?
>> Yes, it is quite fair because he is going to live as an example. Even himself he's going to live to to regret if others the fellow prisoners shall be looking at him that he shall never see he never interact with any community until we meet his death. In regards to the mental capacity as the judge has said he what is your take on that as he analyzed very well the evidence which was put on record.
>> Yes the the judge has been very fair and the procession was very fair. There is no evidence that this man is mad. You cannot be mad and you behave in such a way that is it proves that that you are sound. So he was trying to hide in madiness to dodge in any justice.
There's no ingredient to support that is really mad. Maybe if he has ever been mad but by the time we committed that offense he was no more.
>> What is your take of bringing the court to the audience to the public not like the other court sessions which have been held in buildings and so on. It has been the best procedure bringing the court close to the people because many people who have attended this court they could have not afforded to move to where the court would have been and even the courtrooms are so squeezed that you cannot accommodate the number which is here. So it has brought it just just down to the last person.
>> Oh thank you so much. We thank you. Uh yes uh for those ones who are viewing us on on television uh we are bringing you live the case of Mr. Christopher who was accused of murdering the photos at Gabard Development Center. But right now I as I speak the judge has entered the judgment that he's guilty of all the offenses he committed and there is no way he would just go score three free and right uh at around three we shall get the sentence of the judge after the mitigating factors from the proction.
Rachel says at least.
Okay.
Yeah, Mommy,ch.
President What?
Foreign speech. Foreign speech. Foreign speech.
President Soch.
UBC. See, for those ones who are watching us on UBC, and others who are on other platforms who are watching us. What I can tell you that that was all with the judgment from judge Aris Kawoka and at exactly 9 we are going to come back at exactly two we are going to come back so that the judge can give the sentence for the for the accuse and before giving the sentence they will have to go through the mitigating factors from the prosecution and obviously still they will pray for that uh deterrent sentence from the court and even for the defense they'll pray for the lenient sentence obviously because that is their client.
With all that said, I'm here with a big team uh with Jatindi and uh K to give you whatever it is whatever is unveiling at Gaba early childhood center where there is a mobile court for the trial of Mr. Oko Christopher on you. I thank you.
Good afternoon.
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