24-year-old Ruth Kamande had the nerve to participate in a prison beauty contest while awaiting trial for the murder of her partner Farid Mohammed
A beauty queen who murdered her boyfriend by stabbing him 25 times has been sentenced to death in Kenya. This was in 2015. It was While awaiting trial for the killing that Ruth Kamande was crowned 'Miss Lang'ata Prison' in Nairobi.
Passing sentence on Thursday, High Court judge Jessie Lesiit said :
'I want young people to know that it is not cool to kill your boyfriend or girlfriend even where you feel disappointed or frustrated - don't do it .
'Instead, it is cool to walk away and thereafter to forgive.
'I think passing any other sentence than the one prescribed (death) would turn the accused into a hero.'
While rights groups called the punishment 'inhumane', the victim's tearful aunt Emmah Wanjiku told reporters after the sentencing :
'We're glad that this day came and his grandparents, his sister were actually in court today when this verdict was given.'
Kamande's lawyer Joyner Okonjo said she would appeal the sentence.
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