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Jealous Ugandan woman to serve 20 years in jail for acid attack

A Ugandan woman serving 20 years for assaulting a girlfriend of her lover with sulphuric acid has lost an appeal.

Irene Wastema, a mother of five, lost her appeal against her sentence before Justice Anne Ong’injo in Mombasa on Friday.

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