Police in Rukungiri have arrested a medic for murder of his own wife and attempted suicide.
It is alleged that Jackson Arineitwe a healthy worker in charge Ngoma health centre 2 located in Nyakishenyi sub county stabbed Enid Natukunda to death with a knife on Friday 19/05/20 23,
Trouble emanated from Enid Natukunda’s parents who invited the couple for a visit which the husband declined on grounds that he did not have money to buy some essential items for the parents.
However, the wife insisted and visited her parents. On coming back, they picked a quarrel which forced Natukunda to start sleeping alone in the visitor’s room.
On the night of 27/05/20 23, at their home at Rwenanura cell Nyabitete parish Buyanja sub county, the children heard their parents fighting and called their neighbors.
Upon arrival, they heard noise coming from the store and on entering, they saw Jackson hanging on the rope which they cut and rescued him from suicide.
When they entered the house and found the body of the woman lying down under the bed, her neck stabbed many times.
They immediately alerted Police at Buyanja
which swung into action and arrested Arineitwe.
A knife suspected to have been used in the murder was recovered and exhibited and blood samples from the deceased collected.
Body was conveyed to Rwakabengo Health Center 3 for postmortem as investigations commence
