Justice Emokor, while delivering the ruling, said although Ahimbisibwe did not waste the court’s time, he committed a grave crime of rudely taking away the lives of his immediate family members for which he should be punished severely.

demanding to know why he did not finish ferrying sand on his construction site. But other residents intervened and rescued the boy from his father.

Later when the wife and the children got home, a neighbour alerted them to take precaution because he had seen the angry husband hiding in an unfinished building next to their home.

Later at around 10pm, the neighbours had people screaming inside the house, and found it on fire. All the occupants died in the fire. Investigations further revealed that Ahimbisibwe had been seen earlier that night at a nearby fuel station with a jerrycan.