Kitgum Woman, 26, jailed 28 years for killing husband over Shs 10,000
February 18, 2021 Written by URN
A 26-year-old woman was on Wednesday evening sentenced to 28 years and eleven months in jail for murdering her husband over Shs 10,000.
Mercy Layet, a resident of Okwici village, Angara parish, Akwang sub-county in Kitgum district was convicted and sentenced for murdering Patrick Ocan, 24, a senior two student at the time of his death.
Court heard that Layet stabbed Ocan to death with a knife on the night of December 17, 2017 from their home after Ocan returned from a drinking joint and was demanding for his Shs 10,000 that she had borrowed earlier.