Kabuuma and Sadiq fought over Nabiryo last year. For a long time Kabuuma had been warning Sadiq to stay away from Nabiryo, but Sadiq had ignored him and continued to call her at night and even give her lifts on his bicycle.Then Sadiq got a job in Kampala and left Buikwe. Kabuuma thanked his gods for helping him but then then on Christmas of 2021, Sadiq now returned with a bodaboda and Kabuuma thought it was going to lose Nabiryo again. Around Easter, Sadiq bought a cloth for Nabiryo and that is how the fight started. In that confusion, Kabuuma hit Sadiq with a wheel spanner and for over a year, Sadiq was in a coma. Last week Sadiq died from those injuries.
Sadiq’s family want Kabuuma to be punished for ‘murdering’ their son. Do they have a point?
WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?.
By law, no one is allowed to take the life of another person unless this happens either as a punishment given by a court of law for a crime and that person has been found guilty of that crime or if there is a legal justification for taking another person’s life such as self defence.
However, when we talk about taking someone’s life, it does not have to be immediate. For example, the fact that a person does not die today or tomorrow, after you injure them, does not mean you have not killed that person.
By law, if a person dies within a year and one day of you injuring them and that death is because of what you did to them, then you must answer for causing that person’s death. This means that if a person dies within 366 days of what you did to them, then you are responsible for their death. However, if that person dies after 366 days even if it is because of what you did, you are not responsible criminally for causing that person’s death.
Source: BarefootLawyers.
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