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Court quashes malice charges against woman

JP had sued the DPP and the DCI. She also roped in DKK as an interested party. [iStockphoto]

The High Court has quashed malicious damage charges against a woman accused of bleaching her husband's clothes.

Justice Peter Mulwa found that the woman, code-named JP to protect her privacy, should not have ended up in the dock as a suspect because the dispute revolved around family differences with her estranged husband, DKK.

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