Godfrey Wamala alias Troy can breathe a sigh of relief after court saved him from facing capital offense in the death of musician Moses Ssekibogo aka Mowzey Radio.
Godfrey Wamala was arrested days after Mowzey Radio died while receiving treatment at a Kampala hospital. The fallen musician died on 1st February 2018 at Case Clinic in Kampala from a blood clot in his brain sustained in a bar brawl in Entebbe a few days earlier.
Wamala went into hiding after he assaulted Mowzey Radio at De Bar in Entebbe, he was arrested days later after the musician succumbed to his injury.
On October 8th, Wamala argued his innocence saying that he didn’t lift the late musician and threw him down as reported. The bouncer told the court that he severally intervened to stop a scuffle involving Mowzey and one George Egesa which broke out after one of them poured a bottle of whiskey on the table.
Well, Entebbe court on Monday October 28th ruled that Wamala did not murder Mowzey Radio. Judge Jane Francis Abodo however convicted the bouncer of manslaughter.
Manslaughter carries relatively lighter sentence than capital offense which would have seen Wamala face the death penalty, in Uganda death-row convicts usually serve a lifetime prison sentence.
Murder is defined in legal terms as the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. Manslaughter, on the other hand, is the crime of killing a human being without prior planning.
Wamala will be sentenced at a later date.
