Meru court awards Sh1.5m to widower forced to spend night with wife’s corpse

Charles Mwenda, the man who spent a night in the rain with the corpse of his wife, Faith Mwende at Kianjai Police Station in Meru County. May 22, 2020. [Courtesy]

The Meru high court has granted a 32-year-old man Charles Mwenda Sh1.5 million in damages following an incident in May last year. 

Mwenda was transporting his wife’s body to Meru for burial but was forced to spend the night at Kianjai police station with the corpse on grounds that he was flouting Covid-19 containment measures by travelling past curfew hours.