By Nyambega Gisesa and Moses Michira
Updated Tuesday, July 1st 2014 at 09:50 GMT +3
Richard Musya Mwanzia had eight years of his youth stolen by a flawed judicial system that subjected him to mental torture and anguish.
Mwanzia was accused by a neighbour of raping and violently robbing her in early 2005. He was arrested, tried and eventually sentenced to death. He was locked up at Kamiti Maximum Prison. From his dark cell, he thought of the world outside the high prison walls that believed he was guilty of terrible crimes. Yet he wasn't. He had wrongly been convicted for a crime that he never committed.
Too poor to afford a lawyer to represent him, he was found guilty by a magistrate's court in Kitui and was sentenced to hang for robbery. The rape charges were dropped when it was established that he had no capacity to have carnal knowledge of his accuser. Unbeknown to his accuser, Mwanzia was an intersex (a person displaying sexual characteristics of both male and female).
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http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000126605/sentenced-to-hang-for-a-crime-that-he-never-committed/
