{"id":10026,"date":"2025-08-04T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=10026"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:44:10","slug":"inmate-kills-colleague-at-masindi-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2025\/08\/04\/inmate-kills-colleague-at-masindi-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Inmate Kills Colleague at Masindi Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Flavia Ajok<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">An inmate at Masindi Government Prison has lost his life following a violent attack by a fellow prisoner in the early hours of Saturday, August 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Uganda Prisons Service, the incident involved convicted prisoner Moses Tuhame (Prisoner No. MDI\/829\/2023), who was serving a sentence for aggravated defilement, and remand prisoner Anatoli Irumba (Prisoner No. R-534\/25), who is awaiting trial for the murder of his mother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The violent altercation occurred around 4:00 a.m. in the TB isolation ward, where both inmates were being housed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prisons spokesperson, Frank Baine said that after the attack, Tuhame was rushed to Masindi Hospital, but despite medical efforts, he succumbed to his injuries a few hours later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said Police have taken over investigations into the matter, and a postmortem examination is underway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The body of the deceased will be handed over to his relatives upon completion of the medical and legal procedures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Baine has promised full cooperation with police investigators to ensure justice is served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Flavia Ajok An inmate at Masindi Government Prison has lost his life following a violent attack by a fellow prisoner in the early hours of Saturday, August 3, 2025. According to Uganda Prisons Service, the incident involved convicted prisoner Moses Tuhame (Prisoner No. MDI\/829\/2023), who was serving a sentence for aggravated defilement, and remand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-national","9":"category-news"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10030,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10026\/revisions\/10030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}