Kenyan man sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for chopping off his wife’s hands because she couldn’t bear him children
A Kenyan man has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for attempted murder after he chopped off his wife’s hands.
LIB recalled that in what was described as the most atrocious cases of domestic violence, Stephen Ngila chopped off Jackline Mwende’s hands with a machete in Machakos County on July 25, 2016, because she couldn’t conceive after seven years of marriage. Read previous report HERE
Ngila, now 39, was given the sentence on Tuesday, February 9, after he was found guilty. He was however granted 14 days to appeal the ruling.
In her judgment, Machakos Law Court Justice Brenda Bartoo said the court had taken note the accused was not remorseful for the offense he was convicted of.
“The court notes that the offense committed was grave, and the victim in the statement does not wish for any restitution,” she outlined while giving factors that informed the term.
“Therefore I proceed and sentence you for the offense of attempted murder contrary to section 220(A) of penal code,” she added in her judgement.
Mwende told the court her husband chopped off her hands with a machete because she could not bear him children.
he should have been sentence to life imprisonment for that devilish acts….
This is the Wickedness of the highest order, chop off your wife’s hand because she can’t bear him child, this is bad.
The court ought to have chop off his own hand too instead of giving 30 years imprisonment only, because it will serve as deterrent to others.
This is bad and outrageous, why can’t he look for alternative instead of resulting in cutting her hand.