By URN
“My lord, there is no injustice that will be occasioned even trial hasn’t started. Secondly my lord, the exception read is of the evidence is not disclosed in the summary. The summary is already on the court record which the accused are privy to,” said Wakooli.
Meanwhile Molly has asked to be tried via zoom saying that she gets hardships climbing stairs while coming to the High Court room. The court has no ramps for people who use wheel chairs.
But in response, the Judge Muwata indicated that they have not yet decided on who should be charged, and who shouldn’t on some charges and thus advised her to return tomorrow for his ruling on the matter.
Molly who was wheeled to Court in a wheel chair by the Safety and Security Unit-SSU the elite force of the prison services, remains on remand at Luzira Women’s Prison while her co-accused were granted bail about four months ago.
Shortly after the shooting of Katanga, his wife Molly was found covered in a pool of blood under unclear circumstances before she was rushed to International Hospital Kampala -IHK where the court records indicate she underwent five major surgeries on her head.
Molly was hospitalized for about two months prior to her production in Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court which committed her to the High Court for trial.
She made attempts to be temporarily released on bail without success on two separate occasions.
The first was on April 9th, 2024 when the trial Judge Muwata denied Molly bail on grounds of failure to prove exceptional circumstances which mainly included that there was no medical report from Prison to show that her condition cannot be managed.
Consequently, Molly made a second bail application in which the Uganda Prisons Service on April 15th 2024 carried out another medical Examination and stated that the assessment and monitoring of Molly’s illnesses was beyond their capacity.
The evidence before the Court indicates that Molly was found to suffer from hypertension with multiple breast masses, paranasal sinusitis, vertigo, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
According to the Doctors in prison, the findings of the reevaluation of Molly revealed that she “has not received trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and no follow-up services by an ENT surgeon to address her paranasal sinusitis and vertigo as recommended on the treatment plan from Mulago National Hospital in their report dated February 8th, 2024.
The decision to deny Molly bail has since been challenged in the East African Court of Justice by a a Democracy and Human Rights Watchdog , Legal Brains Trust which is headed by renowned City lawyer Isaac Ssemakadde.
However, when Court resumed after the second break, the Prosecution informed the Court that they wanted Molly’s co accused to each appear on two charges of destroying evidence and also of being an accessory after the fact of murder. The accused each has one count at the moment.
The case has been adjourned to July 3rd 2024.