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Man serving 20 years for defiling step-daughter to be retried

AE was charged with defilement and incest on his 13-year-old step-daughter. [iStockphoto]

A case where a man was charged with multiple sexual offences and jailed for 20 years instead of a single charge will be revisited after a high court order.

The High Court in Bungoma ruled that AE who was charged with defilement and incest on his 13-year-old step-daughter should have been charged with either and not both charges as the latter caused confusion and cut in on his right to free trial.

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