The police have called on the public to help identify a woman whose decapitated body was recovered in Butale Zzinga Village in Masaka District, and who is alleged to be one of Uganda’s most wanted cannibals, Quraish Kamugisha alias Fred Mujuli (35), who has since been arrested by security.

“There is a lady whom he (Kamugisha) confessed to having plucked out her heart. The body was recovered from Butale Zzinga village in Kako, Masaka District and the head was not far away from it. Up to today, the female has not yet been identified,” Police Spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke said on Monday.

He further stated that the suspect, Mujuli, who on Friday appeared before the court police and has been remanded to prison, confessed to having killed the woman, among many others in Masaka and Kiruhura districts.

Police have since provided telephone numbers to identify the victim and share details.

“We call upon anybody with information about the identity of this person to come up. We are also providing telephone numbers which can be contacted: 0741445532, 0741445534, 0741445535,” Rusoke said.

Meanwhile, the suspect in the murder was on Friday committed to the High Court for trial, with prosecutors saying investigations into the matter had been completed.

Quraish Kamugisha alias Fred Mujuli is accused of killing 38 people in the last 13 years and eating their bodies.

His arrest was announced by the Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, late last month.