Former convict Mathews Kanyamunyu has been discharged from Murchison Bay Prison, Luzira.
Kanyamunyu had been convicted by the High Court and sentenced to 5 years and 1 month on 12/11/2020, for unintentionally killing social worker Kenneth Akena in 2016.
His charge was later reduced from murder to manslaughter by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
According to Prisons’s Spokesperson, Frank Baine, after computing remission, Kanyamunyu’s imprisonment was reduced from the Latest Possible Date of Discharge (LPD) of 11/12/2025 to the Earliest Possible Date of Discharge (EPD) of 12/4/2024.
‘Remission’ is a prison management practice where a portion of a prisoner’s sentence is reduced by 1/3 as a reward for discipline and hard work.