Traditional Leaders fines Denis Alal’s kin 8 Cows for Wife’s Murder!

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Following the gruesome murder of Christine Akello, a 43-year-old woman, by her husband, Denis Alal, whom she jilted. The family of the husband has been ordered to pay eight cows to her relatives after a two-month period in compensation.

Denis Alal, now deceased reportedly sent death threats to his estranged wife who left him because of physical abuse meted on her and her daughter during their union. He alleged that she was promiscuous and also threatened to kill the daughter if she wasn’t returned.

The late wife, out of fear moved to live with a relation at the Telela Cell, Omito Ward in Lira, and was eventually killed by her spouse. She died instantly by a cut to her throat and thigh with a machete. Denis Alal was thereafter, cut with the same machete and lynched by a mob in a display of jungle justice.

The decision, reached by the Arak Ongoda clan and the Okii Bura clan, was reached according to tradition. No suspects have been identified.