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Convict’s appeals for freedom fail despite witness’ new tale

Star witness lied but that can't help death row prisoner. [Photo: Courtesy]

A man was handed the death sentence on account of false testimony by a star witness in a robbery with violence case, it has emerged.

Dominic Kihuri, a taxi driver, has confessed that his testimony that Peter Manthi was one of the two people who robbed him on April 9, 2004, as he ferried them was nothing but a lie.

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