Police officer kills wife, himself over HIV positive results
Residents of Nsambya police barracks gathered at the scene where a police officer shot his wife dead before killing himself. Courtesy photo
A police officer attached to VIP Protection Unit has killed himself after shooting his wife dead.
Police say Godfrey Sabiti, a resident of Nsambya barracks killed his wife before turning the same gun at himself after he allegedly tested HIV positive.
According to the documents recovered by the police, Mr Sabiti’s wife, Akol and their children had all their HIV results reading negative. However , Mr Sabiti, must have found himself positive therefore taking a wrong decision.
“He took all his family members for an HICV test on January 21,2017,” said Kampala Metropolitan Police deputy spokesman, Paul Kangave
This is the second officer to kill himself in just two months period.
In December last year, Patrick Oloya, a Field Force Unit (FFU) personnel attached to Pader Central Police station
Police officer shoots self
Mr Patrick Jimmy Okema, the Aswa River region police spokesperson, said police have recorded statements from family members to piece circumstances that could have led to Oloya's death
after locking himself inside his uni-port house at the Police barracks.
