Donat Kubwayo 25, has been handed a life sentence at the Nyanza district Court after he was found guilty of killing his mother.

Until then, Kubwayo was an Economics student at the National University of Rwanda.

The student is said to have used a sickle to hack to death his mother Anastasie Mukabaruta, 63 last Friday at Nkomane sector in Nyamagabe district.

{Kubwayo Donat previously held at Musebeya Police Post in Nyamagabe}