CARMEL RICKARD: Charles Mwenda’s night of anguish
A Kenyan court has awarded a widower damages after it found that police had treated him in a cruel and degrading manner
08 July 2021 - 05:00
SA’s horror stories about police abuse under lockdown regulations have met a match in the tale of Kenya’s Charles Mwenda, whose story could have come straight from a Gothic novel.
Last May, Mwenda travelled from one county in Kenya to another to bury his wife, who had died of cancer...
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