Betty Cherotic, wife to late Dr Abiriga Jino who was the Masindi District Health officer has made a shocking confession, confirming to have killed him.
Cherotic has told police detectives that she actually murdered her husband after getting tired of his habit of sleeping with a fleet women.
She made the revelation during an interrogation with senior Police detectives from the homicide department.
Cherotic says the deceased’s levels of cheating had reached an unbearable point.
According to information, the pair got married in 2019 and were blessed with a baby. She adds that she first gave birth and a baby died at an early stage.
She even narrated that she got another twin pregnancy which also got out.
She added that late 2023 she got information that Dr Abiriga got another woman called Atukura Susan from Masindi.
“When he got another woman, he stopped extending help to me and the young baby,” Cherotic revealed to police detectives.
Detectives say, she now started the plan to murder Susan. “This woman went and set fire to the house of Susan but fortunately it was put off before causing damages,” Says a senior detective who is part of investigations.
She says her husband kept accusing her of being sexually weak and other sorts of insults.
The woman later hired Martin to kill the co-wife Susan at the cost of shs 2.5m and first deposited 500k.
“The murder plot failed because Susan did not show up at the killing spot,” Says another detective. He added that Betty then resorted to killing her husband and hired two assassins that is Kapsam Martin and Namuleng Joshua at the cost of shs 1m.
Both killers hail from Bukwo District in Sebei Region.
Police Spokesperson Fred Enanag says the trio killed Dr Abiriga in his home bed room and later took the body 50 meters away from their home.
“After the deal was finished, the killers went and spent the night at Valentine guest house and the following day, they went back to Bukwo.
Enanga says all of them have been arrested and will face murder charges in Masindi. Afande Enanga says there is increasing murders of husbands by their wives.
