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Karma strikes as wife Crashes Own Funeral to confront killer

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p><img class&equals;"js-image-replace" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ichef-1&period;bbci&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;660&sol;cpsprodpb&sol;16A9E&sol;production&sol;&lowbar;88103829&lowbar;noelarukundoabc&lowbar;news&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Noela Rukundo" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"426" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-small&semi;"><i><br &sol;>&NewLine;Photo credit BBC <&sol;i><&sol;span><b><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;small&semi;">Noela Rukundo<&sol;span><&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;red&semi;font-size&colon;x-large&semi;"><i>&&num;8220&semi;Surprise&excl; I&&num;8217&semi;m still alive&excl;&&num;8221&semi;  <&sol;i><&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon;red&semi;"><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;large&semi;"><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"color&colon;black&semi;">Murder for hire goes bad <&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"color&colon;blue&semi;font-size&colon;large&semi;"><i>A group of gunmen was hired to kill a woman&comma; instead set her free  with evidence to convict the guy who hired them&period; The kidnappers even extorted extra cash from their client with no intention of soiling their hands with the blood of an innocent woman&period; <&sol;i><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<a name&equals;"more"><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"fb-like"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>While visiting her native Burundi from Australia&period; <i>Noela Rukundo<&sol;i> was supposed to be dead&period; The hired killers had been paid&period; Providence intervened&comma; she survived&comma; leaving her with a chance to turn the tables on the man who wanted her dead&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They hired assasins even explained how they would dispose of the body&period; Noela Rukundo remembers the feeling&comma; like her &&num;8220&semi;head was going to blow up&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I felt like somebody who had risen again&comma;&&num;8221&semi; says Noela&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But now&comma; waiting outside her house for the last of the mourners to leave&comma; she was ready to face down the man who had put out a contract for her murder&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;When I get out of the car&comma; he saw me straight away&period; He put his hands on his head and said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Is it my eyes&quest; Is it a ghost&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Neola was home to attend her stepmother&&num;8217&semi;s funeral&period; Sitting in her hotel room She received a call from her husband&comma; in Australia&period; &&num;8220&semi;He says he&&num;8217&semi;d been trying to get me for the whole day&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Noela says&period; &&num;8220&semi;I said I was going to bed&period; He told me&comma; &&num;8216&semi;To bed&quest; Why are you sleeping so early&quest;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I say&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m not feeling happy&&num;8217&semi;&period; And he asks me&comma; &&num;8216&semi;How&&num;8217&semi;s the weather&quest; Is it very&comma; very hot&quest;&&num;8217&semi; He told me to go outside for fresh air&period;&&num;8221&semi;Noela took his advice&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I didn&&num;8217&semi;t think anything&period; I just thought that he cared about me&comma; that he was worried about me&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But moments after stepping outside the hotel compound&comma; Noela found herself in danger&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I opened the gate and I saw a man coming towards me&period; Then he pointed the gun on me&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;He just told me&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Don&&num;8217&semi;t scream&period; If you start screaming&comma; I will shoot you&period; They&&num;8217&semi;re going to catch me&comma; but you&quest; You will already be dead&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;So&comma; I did exactly what he told me&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js">&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&excl;-- konnie-moments&lowbar;footer-2-1&lowbar;AdSense4&lowbar;1x1&lowbar;as --><br &sol;>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi;"><&sol;ins><br &sol;>&NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;huffingtonpost&period;com&sol;entry&sol;noela-rukundo&lowbar;us&lowbar;56b4ca0be4b04f9b57d94b95" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">bbc&comma;<&sol;a> the Kidnappers told her they had been contracted by her husband to kidnap&comma; then kill her as proof the got him on the phone and put him on speaker&period; She passed out as she heard Balenga Kalala&comma; her husband and father of her three youngest children order them to &&num;8216&semi;kill her&comma; kill her&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As the gang&&num;8217&semi;s leader ended the call to Kalala&comma; Noela was coming round&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I said to myself&comma; I was already dead&period; Nothing I can do can save me&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;But he looks at me and then he says&comma; &&num;8216&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re not going to kill you&period; We don&&num;8217&semi;t kill women and children&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;He told me I&&num;8217&semi;d been stupid because my husband paid them the deposit in November&period; And when I went to Africa it was January&period; He asked me&comma; &&num;8216&semi;How stupid can you be&comma; from November&comma; you can&&num;8217&semi;t see that something is wrong&quest;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>After two days in captivity&comma; Noela was freed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><b> Happier days&period; Noela and Kalala on their wedding day in Melbourne<&sol;b><br &sol;>&NewLine;<img class&equals;"responsive-image&lowbar;&lowbar;img js-image-replace" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;ichef-1&period;bbci&period;co&period;uk&sol;news&sol;624&sol;cpsprodpb&sol;5D16&sol;production&sol;&lowbar;88103832&lowbar;weddingphoto976&period;jpg" alt&equals;"A wedding photo &lpar;Balenga Kalala and Noela Rukundo&rpar;" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"640" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<span style&equals;"font-size&colon;x-small&semi;"><i> Photo credit BBC<&sol;i><&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js">&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&excl;-- konnie-moments&lowbar;footer-2-1&lowbar;AdSense4&lowbar;1x1&lowbar;as --><br &sol;>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi;"><&sol;ins><br &sol;>&NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;&&num;8216&semi;We give you 80 hours to leave this country&comma;'&&num;8221&semi; Noela says the gang told her&period; &&num;8220&semi;&&num;8216&semi;Your husband is serious&period; Maybe we can spare your life&comma; but other people&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re not going to do the same thing&period; If God helps you&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll get to Australia&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Before leaving Noela by the side of a road&comma; the gang handed her the evidence they hoped would incriminate Kalala &&num;8211&semi; a memory card containing recorded phone conversations of him discussing the murder and receipts for the Western Union money transfers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-size&colon;large&semi;"><i>&&num;8220&semi;We just want you to go back&comma; to tell other stupid women like you what happened&comma;&&num;8221&semi; t<&sol;i>he gang told Noela as they parted&period;<i> &&num;8220&semi;You must learn something&colon; you people get a chance to go overseas for a better life&period; But the money you are earning&comma; the money the government gives to you&comma; you use it for killing each other&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Noela  called the pastor of her church in Melbourne&comma; Dassano Harruno Nantogmah&comma; and requested his help&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;&&num;8216&semi;It was in the middle of the night&period; I says&comma; &&num;8216&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s me&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;m still alive&comma; don&&num;8217&semi;t tell anybody&period;&&num;8217&semi; He says&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Noela&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t believe it&period; Balenga can&&num;8217&semi;t kill someone&excl;&&num;8217&semi; And I said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Pastor&comma; believe me&excl;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By now&comma; Kalala had informed the community that his wife had died in a tragic accident&period; He had spent the day hosting a steady stream of well-wishers&comma; many of whom donated money&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;It was around 7&period;30pm&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Noela says&period; &&num;8220&semi;He was in front of the house&period; People had been inside mourning with him and he was escorting a group of them into a car&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was as they drove away that Noela sprang her surprise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I was stood just looking at him&period; He was scared&comma; he didn&&num;8217&semi;t believe it&period; Then he starts walking towards me&comma; slowly&comma; like he was walking on broken glass&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;He kept talking to himself and when he reached me&comma; he touched me on the shoulder&period; He jumped&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;He did it again&period; He jumped&period; Then he said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Noela&comma; is it you&quest;&&num;8217&semi;… Then he start screaming&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m sorry for everything&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js">&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&excl;-- konnie-moments&lowbar;footer-2-1&lowbar;AdSense4&lowbar;1x1&lowbar;as --><br &sol;>&NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi;"><&sol;ins><br &sol;>&NewLine;&lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kalala later made a full confession to his wife&comma; captured on tape&comma; begging for her forgiveness and revealing why he had ordered the murder&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;He say he wanted to kill me because he was jealous&comma;&&num;8221&semi; says Noela&period; &&num;8220&semi;He think that I wanted to leave him for another man&period;&&num;8221&semi; An accusation she contests&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a police interview&comma; Kalala denied any involvement in the plot&period; Confronted with the recording of his telephone conversation with Noela and the evidence she brought back from Burundi he started to cry&comma; suggesting only that<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;sometimes the devil can come into someone to do something but after they do it&comma; they start thinking&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Why I did that thing&quest;'&&num;8221&semi; After pleading guilty to incitement to<br &sol;>&NewLine;&lpar;function&lpar;i&comma;s&comma;o&comma;g&comma;r&comma;a&comma;m&rpar;&lbrace;i&lbrack;&&num;8216&semi;GoogleAnalyticsObject&&num;8217&semi;&rsqb;&equals;r&semi;i&lbrack;r&rsqb;&equals;i&lbrack;r&rsqb;&vert;&vert;function&lpar;&rpar;&lbrace; &lpar;i&lbrack;r&rsqb;&period;q&equals;i&lbrack;r&rsqb;&period;q&vert;&vert;&lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;arguments&rpar;&rcub;&comma;i&lbrack;r&rsqb;&period;l&equals;1&ast;new Date&lpar;&rpar;&semi;a&equals;s&period;createElement&lpar;o&rpar;&comma; 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