A group of worshippers in Uganda has vowed never to set foot in a church in the country’s Kayunga District after a couple was found having sex at the altar on Tuesday.

The two, a married 23-year-old male Catholic and his recently divorced Muslim girlfriend, were reportedly caught pants down by the man’s wife, who alerted neighbours. 

“A headgear belonging to the woman and a T-shirt for the man are being kept at the Local Council’s (LC) residence as exhibits,” Bugonya LC1 chairman George William Kanda is quoted as saying 

“They accessed the church through the windows since the doors were shut.”

Kanda added that following the incident, the culprits were frogmarched to his office by irate residents but he later set them free after filing a promiscuity case against them.

By Thursday, the man had gone into hiding; his current whereabouts remain unknown.