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Nairobi judge quashes ‘rape’ convict’s 10-year jail term

NAIROBI: A man jailed for 10 years after being convicted of rape has been freed.

Meshack Maingi got his freedom back after a successful appeal against the sentence handed by a Magistrate’s Court after the High Court ruled the woman involved consented to the sex.

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