Great Britain. Judge of the Ugandan Supreme Court sentenced to 6 years in prison

The court in London sentenced the judge of the Supreme Court Ugandy Lydia Mugambe to six years in prison for committing a modern form of slavery.

Judge of the Supreme Court Uganda and the Court UN Lydia Mugambe was sentenced on Friday by a court in London to six years in prison for forcing a woman for free housework.

The victim was her young compatriot, whom she promised in 2022 to come to Great Britain – said the Reuters agency. The crime occurred when Mugambe studied in Oxford.

In 2023, Mugamba was appointed to act as a judge in an international residual mechanism for UN (IRMCT) criminal tribunals, currently acting as no longer existing tribunals, which judged the crimes committed in Rwanda And in former Yugoslavia.

Mugambe, convicted of committing modern slavery

Prosecutors said that 50-year-old Mugamba used her high status in a “extremely glaring way”, cheating on a young ugandy, who, as a result, worked as a maid without remuneration.

The judge was accused on the basis of the British law on contemporary slavery of a conspiracy with John Leonard Mugerwa, then the deputy of the High Commissioner Uganda, whose goal was to bring the victim to Great Britain thanks to false statements contained in the application for the visa of the victim.

Mugambe was also accused of “making travel easier to use, forced someone to work and conspiracy to intimidate the victim to stop her from testifying,” the agency said. Mugambe maintained that she was innocent, but the court ruled her blame at all points of the accusation.

IRMCT reported before the ruling that he would “take all appropriate administrative actions to further protect the integrity and the proper and effective functioning of the tribunal mechanism.

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