TheCitizen Tanzania
February 26, 2025 at 01:15 PM
The High Court has sentenced businessman Hamis Luwongo to death by hanging after finding him guilty of murdering his wife, Naomi Marijani.
The verdict was delivered on Wednesday, 26 February 2025, by Judge Hamidu Mwanga, who ruled that the prosecution had proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt. The ruling was based on the testimony of 14 witnesses and 10 pieces of evidence presented before the court.
In criminal case number 44/2023, Luwongo, a resident of Gezaulole in Kigamboni District, was charged with murdering his wife on 15 May 2019. The court heard that he burned her body using two sacks of charcoal inside a chicken coop before burying the remains on his farm and planting banana trees over them.
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