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Taita-Taveta man who exhumed 16 year corpse freed without charge

An open grave. [Photo: Standard]

Police will not be pressing charges against a man who exhumed the body of his grandmother buried 16 years ago.

The 29-year-man is said to have exhumed the body at Russia village in the outskirts of Taveta town last week, claiming that his grandmother was haunting him and demanding a decent burial. 

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