UPDATE:: As I suspected, there was a bit more to the story. Although the initial report notes two victims, the line between the two was blurred and I didn't catch it.
Several media outlets missed a key fact in their coverage of the 10-year prison sentence imposed Sept. 18 on Chris Mubiru, a former manager of Uganda’s national football (soccer) team, The Cranes.
The conviction was for non-consensual sodomy. Mubiru was acquitted of a similar charge in a consensual sexual encounter.
Uganda: Missing the point in 10-year sentence for sodomy_____
From the sources cited, this incident sounds more like rape - Court was told that Nyanzi was drugged by Mubiru before he was sodomised - than anything else.
Football manager convicted of sodomy in Uganda | Gay Star NewsChris Mubiru, the former boss of Sports Club Villa, has been convicted of sodomy in Kampala,Uganda three years after explicit pictures of him having sex with another man appeared in the country’s press.
According to Uganda’s Daily Monitor, the man was found ‘guilty of having carnal knowledge of his victim’ Emmanuel Nyanzi.
Buganda Road Chief magistrate Flavia Nabakooza added that the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Mubiru was acquitted on a second count of sodomy because his partner, George Oundo, consented.
Murbiru’s sentence has yet to be announced; according to SMSMediaUganda he will be sentenced on September 18.
In July a doctor claimed Mubiru, who also managed Uganda Cranes, was tortured to ‘prove’ he’s not gay, after he was outed by Ugandan tabloid Red Pepper in 2012. He was first arrested in 2009.
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