Mathew Kirabo Found Guilty of Murdering Girlfriend Desire Mirembe

Mukono High Court Judge Justice Henry Kaweesa has convicted Mathew Kirabo after finding him guilty of murdering his girlfriend, Desire Mirembe Jemima.

In his Monday ruling, Justice Kaweesa said after a careful study of all the evidence, the case was ‘a love story gone wrong’.

19-year-old Mirembe was a student of medicine at Makerere University at the time of her death.

The judge convicted Kirabo of first-degree murder but will sentence him once he is arrested.

On July 7, 2015, the body of Mirembe was found in a sugarcane plantation in Lugazi, Buikwe district.

Kirabo, who was her boyfriend, confessed to the gruesome act and was charged in the Jinja Magistrates Court with murder before being remanded.

He was later granted bail on November 24, 2016.

Kirabo was given bail which he has since skipped and fled the country, according to media reports.

His family was fined Shs150m which they paid in cash.