Uganda, April 21 -- Fresh testimony in the ongoing High Court mobile session in Ggaba has revealed that authorities in the United States found no criminal record linked to Christopher Okello Onyum, the suspect in the murder of four toddlers at a daycare centre earlier this month.

Detective Assistant Superintendent of Police Eserait James, the Division CID Officer at Kabalagala Police, told court on Tuesday that investigators, through the office of the deputy CID director, Ms Beyata Chelimo, formally wrote to the American embassy in Kampala seeking background information on Okello, who had previously lived in the United States.

"The report from the Americans indicated that the embassy had no known criminal offence in their records regard...