UPDF Deserter Handed 35-Year Sentence for Involvement in Joan Kagezi Assassination

Joan Kagezi Murder: Ex-Soldier Confesses, Gets 35-Year Sentence

The High Court of Uganda, sitting at the International Crimes Division on Monday, May 19, 2025, recorded a guilty plea from Kisekka Daniel Kiwanuka, 47, in connection with the 2015 assassination of Senior Principal State Attorney Joan Kagezi. Kisekka, a former corporal in the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), entered the plea under a plea bargain arrangement and accepted a proposed sentence of 35 years’ imprisonment. Kisekka admitted to tak…

ODPP Secures conviction in Joan Kagezi Assassination case

KAMPALA– In a landmark development, a decade after the assassination of former Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Joan Namazzi Kagezi, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has secured a guilty plea and conviction in the Joan Kagezi case. The late Joan Magezi (Courtesy photo) The High Court of Uganda sitting at the International Crimes Division, has today, Monday, May 19, 2025, entered a guilty plea from one of the accu…

Daniel Kisekka Sentenced to 35 Years over Joan Kagezi Murder

The International Crimes Division of the High Court has convicted Daniel Kisekka, a resident of Nsava village in Kayunga District, for the 2015 assassination of Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Joan Kagezi Namazzi. In a major judicial milestone, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) today secured a guilty plea and conviction in the high-profile assassination case of Kagezi, nearly a decade after her killing shocked th…

UPDF Deserter Handed 35-Year Sentence for Involvement in Joan Kagezi Assassination

A Ugandan court has sentenced a former Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) deserter to 35 years in prison for his involvement in the 2015 assassination of Joan Kagezi, a senior state prosecutor. The High Court ruled that the convict, whose identity remains protected due to legal restrictions, participated in planning and executing the high-profile killing that shocked Uganda’s legal community. Kagezi, then serving as Assistant Director of Publ…

Joan Kagezi case: UPDF deserter convicted, sentenced to 35 years in jail for murder

Kisekka (right) has been convicted and sentenced for Kagezi murder Kisekka was convicted on Monday following his own guilty plea to the charge of murder, under a plea bargain agreement with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The state was represented by Assistant DPP Thomas Jatiko and Chief State Attorney Jacqueline Okui. Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Crimes Division of the High Court in Kampala has senten…