By our reporter
Ivan Kamyuka, a city socilaite has been sentenced to three years in jail after being convicted of manslaughter in a case where he is accused of un-intentionally murdering John Ahimbisibwe aka Johnie while at Club Guvnor.
Kamyuka was accused of using excessive force and ignoring the role of other mediators such as Security and other dancers at the nightclub when Ahimbisibwe attacked him.
High Court judge, Wilson Kwesiga acquitted Kamyuka of murder and instead found him guilty of manslaughter after examining the prosecution evidence.
According to the evidence, the deceased attacked Kamyuka first and provoked his girlfriend, Nima Nyarwaka.
To exonerated Kamyuka of murder, justice Kwesiga also considered his defence evidence and that of his girlfriend Nyarwaka who testified that late Ahimbisibwe was a violent man who had been even deported from Sweden over his conduct.
Ahimbisibwe was killed in the early morning hours of August 2, 2015, at Club Guvnor in Industrial Area, Kampala’s Central Division, when he had a confrontation with Kamyuka and suffered a cut in the neck inflicted by a sharp object. He bled to death.
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