The former Bukwo District LC5 Chairperson Julius Chelimo has been further remanded to Luzira maximum prison after hearing of his case flops today..
He is facing n charges of Aggravated Defilement and has been on remand since 2022.
He returned to court on Monday 21st October 2024 before the International Crimes Division of the High, however, presiding Justice Wejuli Wabwire was unavailable.
The matter was adjourned to 29. 0ct. 2024 with instructions from his new lawyers to file instructions as confirmation that he hired them to represent him per the law.
Chelimo is facing charges of aggravated defilement of a 15-year-old student and Trafficking in children. He denies all the charges.
The said charges were confirmed by Justice Alice Komuhangi in May this year, and despite his multiple bail applications, the Court declined to temporarily release him pending the determination of his case.
The Prosecution states that the 15-year-old victim, and student at Sebei College Tegeres in Bukwo District, was living with her parents in October 2021 when the suspect allegedly lured her into a love affair, enticing her with money, clothes, and phones and often caused her disappearance from home and school.
Evidence further shows that the government official would also have sex with the victim in different places in Bkwo District before he was arrested.
