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Gay News: Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills has spoken of being pursued by Ugandan police for being gay
By: Nigel Robinson

Scott Mills

Gay DJ feared for his life in Uganda

 11 February 2011

 

 

 

The DJ was in Uganda filming an interview with Ugandan politician David Bahati, for a forthcoming television programme The Worst Place to be Gay?

Bahati, who studied in Britain, introduced as a private member’s bill in 2009 an Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which called for the death sentence for gay people. 

Speaking to the Sun newspaper, Mills said that when Bahati discovered that he was gay, the politician “went mental”.  

Mills claimed that Bahati ordered his crew to stop filming and then summoned a security guard.  

He added: “We ran off and he rang one of our guys saying, ‘Where are they staying? What are the registration plates? I want them arrested. They won’t get far.’ 

“I’d heard horror stories about people getting arrested and roughed up and who knows what. I was scared. 

“We lied that we were at the Sheraton and apparently he turned up there with armed police.” 

Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda and currently carries a penalty of fourteen years’ imprisonment. 

The World’s Worst Place to be Gay? will air on BBC3 at 9pm on Monday 14 February.