Mystery As Judge And Court Agonize Over Who May Have Gotten Death Row-Bound Beauty, Pregnant... And Where It Happened
A desperate Kenyan woman charged with murder who learnt from her lawyer that pregnant women can never be sentenced to hang somehow arranged to get pregnant while still in police custody and escaped the hangman’s noose by inches even as all the other people whom she was charged with were sentenced to hang.
She had innocently met and fallen in love with one of her co-accused persons, Mbugua. Judy was a second hand clothes dealer at Gikomba. She was able to fend for herself and lived a fairly comfortable life. But she had been unlucky with men, very unlucky. Men always wanted to use her and then dump her at the earliest excuse. She really never understood what the problem was because Judy was beautiful by any standards. After half a dozen relationships that had ended very badly, she finally gave up and put all her attention on her fledging small business.
When Mbugua came into her life it was like a breath of fresh air. No man had ever fussed over her and treated her like a queen—the way Mbugua did. It was easy to fall in love with him and dismiss all the earlier experiences as just plain bad luck. But now it seemed her luck had dramatically changed.
How could she have questioned Mbugua when she came to her with his strange request? He asked her to pose as “his sister” based abroad who had come into the country to buy land? Mbugua simply told her that her role was important in facilitating a certain business deal that he could not discuss with her.
She trusted him completely and ignored all her instincts which told her to ask more questions and to understand exactly what she was getting involved in. They met the impeccably dressed man at least twice in his office and arranged to go and view the piece of land she was allegedly purchasing for “her brother” (Mbugua).
Of course something told her that there was something very wrong here but she ignored the loudly ringing warning bells. She could not afford to upset Mbugua. It was unthinkable to lose him. It was such a small lie she had to play out, to make him happy, she convinced herself.
What Judy did not know was that the man whom she had gone to see twice had been targeted for murder because he had double crossed a woman and her husband over some business arrangement concerning land. Judy was used to lure the man to his death. In fact she later learnt that Mbugua and some other two friends of his had murdered the guy but the driver had survived a very serious beating and slashing with a panga. That was the first thing that went wrong with the murder. The next was that Mbugua and his friends were apparently not fully aware of how easy it was to retrieve their cell phone conversations with the man they murdered. Naturally the other number retrieved from the murdered man’s phone was Judy’s.
Actually the police rounded up everybody before they even knew what was going on. Mbugua and his accomplices had though that the cash backing the would safetly keep yjem out of trouble, after all this was Kenya. But alas, it had not quite worked out like that.
In the court appearances Judy met with Mbugua but they did not exchange a single word. What was there to say? She could see lots of remorse on his face, which secretly comforted her. Still there wasn’t much comfort knowing that her life was going to end with her dangling on the end of some rope for something she did not do.
The lawyer had let it slip that pregnant women cannot be sentenced to hang. She did not tell anybody the plan she had. She was terrified of dying after having spent such a shot miserable time on this earth.
Murder trials are long and as it turned out she almost had 2 years to get pregnant. It is so easy for a woman to lure a man into the act. She did it with several of the policemen who escorted her to court for the hearings, mostly in the filthy toilets reserved for suspects at the High Court.
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By the time the verdict of “guilty” was pronounced she was already 5 months pregnant. She had no idea who the baby’s father was, which of the policemen had planted the seed in her. And she really didn’t care. This was the baby who would save her life and keep her alive until that day when she was going to be free. This was Kenya and anything was possible.
Local newspapers screamed with the headline about her pregnancy on the front page. All the people who knew her would wonder what kind of loose woman she was. But she really didn’t care. This baby would guarantee her life.
Judy (not her real name) is still serving time but is optimistic that one day she will be free. Her son who saved her life is now about 7 years old.
(From Kumekucha archives. First published WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2008. This story-part of it- hit newspaper headlines in Kenya in 2000.) Forward this true story and share widely if you have a sister, daughter or some woman you care about who may fall in love tomorrow and throw caution to the wind with dire consequences.
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