New evidence has been exposed by a state witness in the case in which city businessman Andrew Kananura alias Desh is accused of killing one of his bar employees, telling court on Tuesday that the accused tried to clean up the blood stains at the murder scene.
Mr Kananura is on trial in the High Court for allegedly killing his bar attendant Badru Kateregga in Naguru suburb in 2012.
“We discovered an area behind the bar where there was a scuffle. The place was littered with crates of soda and beer as well as blood drops which had been attempted to be washed away,” Rakai District CIID boss D/ASP Grace David.
D/ASP Grace David was then serving as the Kira Road Police Division CID and the investigating officer of the murder case.
Testifying before High Court judge Joseph Murangira at Buganda Road Court, Mr. Grace said: “The body had multiple bruises including on the limbs plus the buttocks. One of our detectives Constable Angaciya gave me the particulars of the deceased and we informed one of his brothers from Kisaasi, a Kampala suburb,”
Grace said since the proprietors of the venue were not cooperative in providing all the necessary information, he moved around the scene with Angaciya.
READ: Witness explains how Desh Kananura murdered his Panamera bar employee
Earlier this month, another police officer, Mr Stephen Kalyegyera, who was testifying as the fifth state witness in the case, said on the fateful day September 29, 2012, Kananura called him saying he had arrested one of his employees who had been in habitually stealing his money.
Another witness Mr Emmanuel Taika had told court in the previous hearing that on the fateful night, he saw Kananura beat up the deceased while demanding to know why he had stolen his money. He said Kateregga told Kananura that it was Karenzi who had given him the tip, meaning it was not Kananura’s money.
According to the testimony of police officer Kalyegera, Karenzi had given Kateregga a Shs10,000 tip.
Also in his testimony, Mr Kalyegyera told court that the following morning, he received another call from Mr Kananura informing him how someone came stumbling through the nearby football pitch and entered his Panamera premises and died there moments later.
“Upon hearing that, I organised other police officers and we went to the scene. At the scene I observed the deceased lying on his back, he was wearing black jeans and had a speck of blood on his shirt,” he said.
The witnesses added that the regional CID who also was present at the scene of crime, ordered the officers to remove the body and take it to the city mortuary.
The trial continues.
