Ruth Kamande, who was crowned Miss Lang’ata Women Prison in 2016 has graduated with law degree.
The inmate was convicted for killing her lover, Farid Mohammed by stabbing him 25 times.
She pleaded guilty after appearing before the court and claimed that the argument was triggered by the fact that she had found a small yellow card from the Aids Control Programme showing he was a patient, in his room.
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She added that she stabbed him several times using a kitchen knife which fell on her chest from his hands after she overpowered him after putting her two thumbs in his eyes to save her life.
This made her to be sentenced to death in 2018 after being found guilty of the case which led to a sentence to life imprisonment.
Ruth was crowned Miss Langa’ta women prison in 2016.
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The convict recently graduated with a law degree held at Kamiti Maximum Prison on Tuesday, 26th November 2024.
The event was organized by Justice Defenders, an NGO that trains paralegals and lawyers with defenseless communities to provide legal services for themselves and others.
We are here to celebrate this new chapter with a new story which all of you have participated in rewriting. But we are not only here to celebrate graduands from the University of London but graduands who have successfully studied law behind bars. Graduands who are well transformed, rehabilitated and reformed.
Ruth Kamande said in her speech.
Allegedly, she has recently sought to appeal her case at the Supreme Court citing issues surrounding domestic violence and self-defense.
