Dad 'drugged children then murdered wife' (Southhampton, England, United Kingdom)

Sounds like dad GEORGE KIBUUKA is the type who leaves nothing to accident. He PLANS. So it seems he "allegedly" drugged the children before taking a sledgehammer and knife to his wife. That way, there are no witnesses to the murder, see.

Are we supposed to be grateful he didn't slaughter the kids too? That he's only left them traumatized and without a mother?

Notice that Dad is trying to play the mental health card ("diminished capacity"), but that in reality, this is a classic domestic violence homicide. He had a history of battering, and the mother was attempting to get a divorce. Leaving an abuser is always the most dangerous time for women and children.

http://www.maltonmercury.co.uk/news/husband_drugged_children_then_murdered_wife_1_2165364

Thursday 21 October 2010

Husband 'drugged children then murdered wife'
Published on Wed Oct 20 16:26:17 BST 2010

A wealthy husband used a sledgehammer and knife to murder his wife after drugging the couple's children so they would not witness the attack at their Southampton family home, a court has heard.

IT consultant George Kibuuka, 48, launched the "truly terrible killing" as his estranged wife Margaret lay asleep beside one of the children. Another child was also asleep in the room. He then stabbed himself in the abdomen and took organophosphate pesticide, but was found by paramedics and survived, Winchester Crown Court heard.

Kibuuka denies murder and administering a stupefying drug to three of his children so he could carry out the attack. He admits the killing but his defence said it was because of diminished responsibility as he was suffering from an abnormality of mind.

Part-time carer Mrs Kibuuka, 40, had filed for divorce, claiming her husband had been violent towards her, but Kibuuka did not accept the marriage was over and did not want to lose his considerable assets. The mother-of-four had gone to the police to complain about her husband's violence and emotional abuse in the weeks before her death in November last year. She even told a neighbour she slept with a knife under her pillow because she was scared of Kibuuka, who she described as domineering and unpredictable, the jury heard.

Nigel Lickley QC, prosecuting, said that Kibuuka earned £90,000 a year from his job and he was well thought of. He owned four houses as well as land in his native Uganda. The couple had married in Uganda in 1987 and moved to the UK in 1990, but Kibuuka had affairs with other women, including Mrs Kibuuka's two sisters and he fathered two children with one of them.

Tension had been building in the family home over the months as Mrs Kibuuka moved on with her life and considered a university course while Kibuuka worried he would lose money because of the split, Mr Lickley told the jury.

The barrister said that on November 7 last year, Kibuuka put sleeping tablets into the food and drink of the children and in the early hours of the next day he woke up and went to his wife's bedroom with the sledgehammer in darkness. That day he had also bought the knife he used in the killing, the court heard. He told officers his intention was to break his wife's legs so she would be dependent on him and stop the divorce.

Mr Lickley said: "He told officers he struck at what he believed were his wife's legs but he could not see what he was doing. He turned on the light and he realised he had hit his wife's head by mistake. He said it was an ugly image. He told police he believed she was dead but in order to 'minimise her pain' he went to his bedroom, selected the knife, returned and cut his wife's throat."

He then picked up the still-sleeping child and put the youngster in his bed. The blows caused two fractures to Mrs Kibuuka's skull and the knife wound sliced right through her throat and into the vertebrae, the court heard. The children awoke the next day to see their mother dead in a pool of blood and they thought their father had also died.

"The children on that Sunday morning having found that scene wandered out into the street and found a neighbour. They thought their parents had been killed by an intruder or burglar," Mr Lickley said.