The High court in Kampala has started hearing the murder case in which pine car bond proprietor Muhammad Ssebuufu is defending himself of murdering businesswoman Donah Betty Katushabe; over a 9 million shillings car debt in 2015.
Ssebuufu is charged with seven others who were ordered to defend themselves after the prosecution closed its case with 26 witnesses.
Ssebuufu has started his defense today and choose to give unsworn in defense in which prosecution will have no chance of cross examining him.
He has also informed justice Anglin Flavia Ssenoga that he will have three witnesses he intends to adduce to prove his innocence.
In October this year, justice Anglin Flavia Ssenoga ruled that Ssebuufu had a case to answer on grounds that prosecution had adduced sufficient evidence to prove that Ssebuufu and his co-accussed tortured to death the victim on the 23rd of October 2015 after failling to pay a debt of 9 million shillings over a car.
Sebuufu had initially been charged with the former Kampala CPS DPC Aaron Baguma over Katusabe's kidnap and murder but later the DPP without giving any reason to court dropped charges against Baguma and continued with the trial of Ssebuufu and the rest, at the beginning of the trial this year .
According to evidence presented by prosecution, the deceased purchased a car at pine car bond at 13 million but only managed to pay five million.
That after failed attempts by Ssebuufu to have Katushabe pay the remaining 9millions, he instructed his security guards to pick up the victim from her home in Bwebajja along Entebbe road on that fateful day.
Prosecution states that after kidnapping Katushabe, she was taken directly to Ssebuufu's office from where she was kicked and beaten with sticks there by causing grievous wounds to her body which led to her death.
However Ssebuufu denies the allegations and he is currently out on bail.