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Gay News: A man has confessed to murdering Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato, police have reported
David Kato
Arrest in Ugandan gay murder case
Kato was beaten to death with a hammer in his home in
Nsubuga Enock, who police described as a “well known thief”, was arrested yesterday.
He had reportedly been staying with Kato at the time of the murder, after the gay rights activist had bailed him from jail on 24 January for the theft of a mobile phone.
“The prime suspect, Nsubuga Enock was arrested today at around 4pm when he went to visit his girlfriend,” a police spokesman told Reuters on 2 February.
“He has confessed to the murder. It wasn’t a robbery and it wasn’t because Kato was an activist. It was a personal disagreement but I can’t say more than that.”
However, an anonymous police source told Ugandan independent newspaper the Daily Monitor that Enock had confessed to killing his victim because he was tired of having sex with him.
“We have taken him to Mukono Magistrate’s Court to record an extrajudicial statement,” the source told the newspaper.
“He told us that he killed Kato after he failed to give him a car, a house and money he promised as rewards for having sex with him.”
Kato’s murder sparked outrage across the world, particularly as he had been identified as gay, along with 100 others in the Ugandan newspaper Rolling Stone under the headline “Hang them”.
Homosexuality is illegal in
An Anti-Homosexuality Bill which carries the death sentence is still to be debated by the Ugandan Parliament.
