{"id":54848,"date":"2025-07-11T15:54:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/high-court-upholds-life-sentence-for-denis-kazungu\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T15:44:06","slug":"high-court-upholds-life-sentence-for-denis-kazungu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/high-court-upholds-life-sentence-for-denis-kazungu\/","title":{"rendered":"High Court upholds life sentence for Denis Kazungu"},"content":{"rendered":"

The court delivered the verdict on Friday, July 11, 2025, ruling that there was no reason to overturn the sentence handed down by the Nyarugenge Intermediate Court last year.<\/p>\n

The Intermediate Court of Nyarugenge found Kazungu guilty of all 10 charges on March 8, 2024. He appealed on June 12, 2025, requesting a reduced sentence, arguing that he had cooperated during the trial, admitted guilt, and sought forgiveness.<\/p>\n

Kazungu was convicted of crimes including premeditated murder, torture, concealing and dismembering bodies, unlawful detention, and unauthorised access to computer systems. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of Frw 10 million, as well as Frw 30 million in compensation to the victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n

Following a detailed review, the High Court dismissed Kazungu\u2019s appeal and upheld both the life sentence and the compensation order of Frw 30 million.<\/p>\n

Kazungu was taken into custody in September 2023 after police discovered multiple bodies buried in a pit behind his home. Most of his victims were women. He subsequently confessed to the killings.<\/p>\n

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The High Court has upheld the life imprisonment sentence previously handed to Kazungu Denis, who was convicted of 10 serious crimes, including murder, rape, torture, and illegal access to computer data or networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000090731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000090731,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-11-jul-2025-03-42-pm-5321.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-11-jul-2025-03-42-pm-5321.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-11-jul-2025-03-42-pm-5321.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-11-jul-2025-03-42-pm-5321.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-11-jul-2025-03-42-pm-5321.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/mixcollage-11-jul-2025-03-42-pm-5321.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000090731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54848"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54848"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}