Albert Tumwine
Police in Wandegeya are holding eight crime preventers in connection with the death of Ibrahim Imalingat, a student at Mulago Paramedical School who was beaten to death on Sunday.
Imalingat, who was at a party with friends on Saturday night, was assaulted after his colleagues left him alone at the party.
Friends said Imalingat stayed behind to join another party which his girlfriend was attending. Witnesses told police the deceased joined the party but didn’t talk to anyone.
Sources at police indicate among the revellers at the party, was another man who was engaged with Imalingat’s girlfriend. According to police, a scuffle ensued outside the party venue where Imalingat was badly beaten.
Kampala metropolitan spokesperson Patrick Onyango said investigations have started and eight local crime preventers had been arrested.
“We received information that the crime preventers in that area (Mulago) assaulted him (Imalingat). We received information that he had died on Saturday night and we took him to hospital but he died on Sunday afternoon,” Mr Onyango told Saturday Monitor on Thursday.
He, however, denied reports that the police was involved in the death of the 27-year-old student and added that it was yet to be established whether he was assaulted by crime preventers or a rival group over a woman.
According to the postmortem report on Imalingat’s body, he died from a blunt tremor on the head which police said: “Indicates that he fell on his own or he was beaten.”
Imalingat was in his third year studying clinical and community nutrition. He was laid to rest at his ancestral home in Bukedea on Monday.
