Kenya: A Kenyan sentenced to death in July 2013 for the murder and kidnapping of a British couple on holiday at the coast, has filed a lawsuit in London accusing the UK Government of torture.
Ali Babitu Kololo, a 35-year-old father of two from Lamu, currently on death row at Shimo La Tewa Prison in Mombasa, was found guilty by a Kenyan court for being part of a gang that shot dead David Tebbut before kidnapping his wife, Judith.
The incident led to the Kenyan Government sending military troops into Somalia.
Kololo now claims he was tortured by local police into ‘confessing’ that he led the kidnappers to the camp. His case is supported by human rights firm Reprieve and Leigh Day, the same one that represented Mau Mau victims now seeking a judicial review of the official UK support for the Kenyan investigation.
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