Local actor Jean-Bosco Uwihoreye, popularly known as Ndimbati, will on Tuesday, September 13, appear before Nyarugenge Intermediate Court where his trial is expected to begin in substance.

Uwihoreye was arrested on March 10 over a charge of defilement towards a young woman who, in an interview with a local YouTube channel, claimed that the actor sexually exploited her back in 2019 and impregnated her at the age of 17.

She later gave birth to twins whom she now claims she is struggling to feed because the suspect failed to keep his promise that he would financially help her to raise them.

Uwihoreye appeared for the first in court on March 23 during a bail hearing where he denied the defilement charge, arguing that his case was instigated by people who wanted to damage his reputation.

In addition, he also claimed that the alleged victim was not minor by the time he sired the children with her, saying that the documents presented to court showing her age were forged among other reasons.

Prosecutors on the other hand said that they have evidence to the effect that the suspect committed the crimes, including based on the victim’s testimony that she wanted to join the cinema industry with his help but ended up being defiled by the suspect.

The prosecution also pointed out that he made the victim drink Amarula, an alcoholic beverage that he told her was a mixture of milk, chocolate, and crème.

Following the bail hearing on March 28, the court ruled to send him on a 30-day remand.

The presiding judge said that based on the vaccination card presented in the court showing that the victim was born on June 7, 2002, and also the accounts of the witness who said that the victim on the Christmas eve of 2019 slept out among other evidence there were reasonable grounds to suspect that he committed the crime.

Uwihoreye and his lawyers appealed against the decision but they lost and court remanded him and he has since been incarcerated at Nyarugenge prison commonly known as ‘Mageragere’.