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Woman added 15 years in prison for poisoning daughter

Halima Sheila Bwakali at Kakamega law courts. (Benjamin Sakwa, Standard)

An altercation, a bottle of pesticide, one death, two escapes and three concurrent sentences could better explain the situation a woman and two children found themselves in.

Halima Sheilla Bwakali will have to serve a 15-year jail term after she was found guilty of killing her own daughter, attempting to kill her son and attempted suicide.

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