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Pretty Nicole’s friends misled her from the vocational course she had been sent to study- Relatives reveal

The internet was thrown into a snafu this week when a video emerged of a girl being battered by a group of other girls over - what has since been confirmed to be - a man.

Collage of screengrabs from a video that has since been shared. Middle is Nicole with a friend affiliated to the assault

In the video, the girl is cornered in a house by three other females who confront her about dating a man who supposedly 'belonged' to one of them.

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In the video, the young-looking girl is violently confronted, cornered, and stripped naked, among other forms of assault.

The video has since attracted thunderstorms from the internet that prompted the Police to start a hunt for the violators.

According to Nicole’s friends and relatives, she had been taken for a vocational course, where she met the friends-turned tormentors that misled her.

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These relatives and friends were part of a contingent of people that paraded themselves at Kawempe Police station, yesterday, while seeking justice for their own.

They made these comments while speaking to Spark television, which interviewed them at the scene.

According to a one Sharif Katende, the area leader of the Youth in Kawempe, the area it has been confirmed Pretty Nicole hails, they took to Kawempe Police station to seek justice since Nicole could easily be led into committing suicide out of shame and depression.

According to Abu Sentamu, a friend to Nicole and resident of Kawempe, the victim had been assigned a job from which she could get practical skills, only for family to get concerned when she took over a week of absence from the job.

Relatives further insisted that the man who got Pretty flogged was the one who initiated the relationship.

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According to Aisha Kwagala, the mother of Pretty Nicole, it is with heavy heart that she seeks justice and treatment for her daughter who was tortured.

Yesterday, Kampala Metropolitan Police Deputy Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigire confirmed that Police arrested Kaftah Queen, the prime suspect in Nicole’s assault,

According to the Police statement that was shared on Twitter, Pretty Nicole was invited by Kaftah, to attend her birthday celebrations, before things went South.

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