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Father jailed for 'confirming daughter virginity' wants to be acquitted

A man serving a 20-year jail term for defiling his 15-year-old daughter in an alleged ‘virginity test’ has asked the High Court to acquit him saying there was not DNA analysis to link him with the offence.

The convict, abbreviated by letters JKO told Judge Hedwig Ong’udi yesterday that the trial magistrate erroneously relied on the testimony of one witness.

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