{"id":3819,"date":"2021-08-09T18:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2021-08-09T18:20:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:20:36","slug":"woman-who-was-convicted-for-murder-of-former-army-commander-gen-kazini-is-out-of-luzira-prison-after-serving-a-14-year-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/woman-who-was-convicted-for-murder-of-former-army-commander-gen-kazini-is-out-of-luzira-prison-after-serving-a-14-year-jail-term\/","title":{"rendered":"WOMAN WHO WAS CONVICTED FOR MURDER OF FORMER ARMY COMMANDER GEN. KAZINI IS OUT OF LUZIRA PRISON AFTER SERVING A 14 YEAR JAIL TERM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Our Criminal Law Reporters <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lydia Draru, the woman who convicted for the controversial murder of former army commander Maj.Gen. James Kazini is out of Luzira &nbsp;prison after she served her 14 year jail sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The High Court&nbsp;convicted Draru for manslaughter and sentenced her to 14 year- jail term which she served at Luzira maximum prison .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During &nbsp;the sentencing Justice Monica Mugenyi acquitted Draru of the charge of murder, and instead found her guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter. The maximum sentence for manslaughter is life imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The judge agreed with Draru\u2019s&nbsp; lawyers Annet Mutabingwa and Musa Sembajja, who maintained throughout the trial that she did not intend to kill Kazini but acted in self-defence. It was alleged that Draru repeatedly hit Kazini with an iron bar on the head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Gen. Kazini was found dead in a pool of blood at Namuwongo Project Zone, Wabigalo in Makindye Division, Kampala on November 10<sup>th<\/sup> &nbsp;,2009. At the time ,Draru was said to have been a girlfriend to the former army commander, and&nbsp;confessed to have killed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Draru had served two years on remand by the time of her sentencing. Maj.Gen James Kazini, 52, at the time of his death -was &nbsp;hit with a metal pipe on the head and collapsed dead in the doorway. &nbsp;Draru 28 years old at the time ran &nbsp;out of the house wailing: \u201cI have killed him! I have killed him! I have killed Kazini, call the police!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Criminal Law Reporters Lydia Draru, the woman who convicted for the controversial murder of former army commander Maj.Gen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/latest003pix.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4011,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/john-katuramu-a-free-man-after-22-years-in-luzira-prison-for-the-murder-of-prince-kijanangoma\/","url_meta":{"origin":3819,"position":0},"title":"JOHN KATURAMU A FREE MAN AFTER 22 YEARS IN LUZIRA PRISON FOR THE MURDER OF PRINCE KIJANANGOMA","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"September 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Former \u00a0Prime Minister of Tooro John Sanyu Katuramu has today been released from Luzira prison after a 22 year jail term .\u00a0 Katuramu, his nephew Patrick Kwezi and Alex Twinomugisha a former kadogo were convicted and sentenced to death in 1999, for masterminding the gruesome murder of Toro Prince Happy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;National News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"National News","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/national-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210911-WA0057.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210911-WA0057.jpg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210911-WA0057.jpg 1.5x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG-20210911-WA0057.jpg 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4007,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/former-toro-kingdom-prime-minister-john-katuramu-released-from-luzira-prision-after-22-years-jail-term-for-the-murder-of-prince-kijanangoma\/","url_meta":{"origin":3819,"position":1},"title":"FORMER TORO KINGDOM PRIME MINISTER JOHN KATURAMU RELEASED FROM LUZIRA PRISION AFTER 22 YEARS JAIL TERM FOR THE MURDER OF PRINCE KIJANANGOMA","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"September 11, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0Former Prime Minister of Toro John Katuramu has been released from Luzira Prisons on Saturday September 11,2021 after serving 22 years for the brutal murder of the late Prince Patrick Happy Kijanangoma. 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