A MAN accused of murdering his wife was hearing voices in his head “telling him to kill himself”, his daughter told a court.

Susan Kibuuka said her father George Kibuuka was “always” saying it to her in the nine months before he allegedly killed his wife – her stepmother – Margaret with a sledgehammer.

Susan – Kibuuka’s daughter from an earlier relationship – told Winchester Crown Court how she had come to Southampton from Uganda aged 16 and was living with the couple until she moved out in 2004.

In 2009 she became aware that 40-year-old Margaret had filed for divorce after accusing Kibuuka of having an affair with her sisters. Two days before Margaret was killed as she slept alongside their young daughter, Susan told how she had gone out to dinner with her father. She told jurors: “He wasn’t himself on that day. He wanted to tell me something but he never told me anything.”

Susan went on to describe how she spoke to Kibuuka, 48, on Saturday, November 7, the day before he allegedly killed Margaret.

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She said: “He said that he bought a big land in Uganda, but that wasn’t the first time, he was always saying that to me. He said if anything ever happened I would look after it. He said that the titles of the land was in Eastleigh.”

Susan said her father went on to tell her “everything else was safe”.

The court heard how the following morning Susan was collected from her Southampton home by two of her aunts who took her to Kibuuka’s house in Richville Road, Shirley.

She was eventually told Margaret was dead and her father was in hospital injured. Cross-examined by prosecutor Nigel Pascoe QC, Susan said Kibuuka was “not himself”.

She said: “There was something wrong with his brain. I had been talking to my father for many years and on that day it was different.”

Describing conversations during 2009, she added: “He was always telling me that he was hearing voices telling him to kill himself. Every time I got him on the phone he would be telling me. Always.”

Andrew Parry, a senior forensic scientist from the Forensic Science Service, said he examined bloodstains and spots at the scene.

They were in two bedrooms and on the landing. Mr Parry said Kibuuka’s blood was found on the landing floor as well as on a handrail and mirrored wardrobes in the front bedroom where he slept.

He also examined the sledgehammer allegedly used to kill Margaret, which weighed 6.5kg and had traces of her blood on it.

The knife, with a 20 centimetre blade, was “extensively stained” with Kibuuka’s blood, having been wiped clean after he allegedly used it to slit Margaret’s throat before he turned it on himself.

Mr Parry said tests were carried out on the little girl’s pyjamas which found her mother’s blood on the front and back.

Kibuuka denies murdering his wife and three further charges of drugging the children to enable him to carry out the killing.

• The case is adjourned until Monday.

Secrets of the family computer

EVERYTHING Margaret Kibuuka typed or looked on her home computer was being monitored by her husband before he killed her, the court heard.

Police computer expert John Hamer told jurors how he discovered surveillance software had been installed on the family computer when he examined it. Bought from America, it enabled the person who installed it to see what Internet sites were being visited by a particular user, and what passwords had been typed to access bank accounts and email accounts. The software would take screenshots and could then be viewed, the court was told. During the set-up, boxes had been ticked to ensure that Margaret was monitored 24-hours a day.

Email addresses had also been entered to send an alert whenever the words “sex, love and divorce” had been entered, but the box to make that work had not been ticked to activate it. Mr Hamer told the court how on the night before she died, Margaret had used the computer for almost an hour and had typed in several questions and statements into a search engine.

They included: Will I ever get over the break of marriage? My ex-husband has refused to move on. Why can’t my ex husband move on and leave me alone?

My ex won’t leave the house.

Jurors were told how “kibuukag” logged on to the software at 4.48am on Sunday, November 8 – the day Margaret was killed.