Police in the Kiira region police are holding one suspect in connection to the killing of a Jinja City-based female weightlifter.
The deceased Prossy Nyanga, 33, met her death on Saturday night in Budhumbuli Cell, Bugembe Ward in Jinja City, where she was stabbed on the neck, back and stomach.
The suspect Hudson Byansi, a resident of Idudi Cell, Idudi Town Council in Bugweri district was smoked out of his hideout in a dilapidated house within Idudi Town Council on Sunday afternoon.
He is currently being held at the Jinja Central Police Station on murder charges after confessing to having participated in Nyanga’s killing .
Police also recovered a blood-stained knife and two mobile phones belonging to the deceased at Byansi’s house.
Byansi is accused of instigating a gang of youths on Saturday night to stab Nyanga outside a cosmetics shop, leaving her lifeless body with deep cuts.
The Kiira regional police spokesperson, James Mubi, says that Byansi has been on the police wanted list for various crimes, adding that he owns a makeshift house in Budhumbuli Cell, which he and others use to commit crimes.
The deceased’s body is at the Jinja Regional Referral Hospital awaiting autopsy procedures.