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Nurse sentenced to death for procuring abortion set free

Jackson Tali celebrates with his lawyer Martin Onyango after he was acquitted by the Court of Appeal in Nairobi on Thursday. [Boniface Okendo, Standard]

A nurse who was sentenced to hang for helping a teenage girl procure an abortion has been freed after three years on death row and five in remand.

Jackson Tali, 44, became the first registered nurse to face the hangman’s noose in 2014 for procuring an abortion that led to the death of the girl and the foetus in 2009.

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