Rongai man on death row freed after 9 years

NAIROBI: The High Court has freed a man who has been on death row for nine years. Paul Ngugi had been sentenced to death in 2006 for allegedly violently stealing a watch and Sh350 from an Administration Police officer in 2002.

However, Justices Luka Kimaru and Ngenye Macharia quashed his conviction after finding that the testimony that was used to convict him in the lower court was not reliable.