PHOTO | NATIONHigh court has awarded a 74-year-old man believed to have assassinated Pio Gama Pinto Sh2.5 million for being tortured by the police. Kisilu Mutua was charged before Sir John Ainley, then Chief Justice, and sentenced to death in 1965 for the murder of the freedom fighter. Pinto was the first Kenyan politician to be assassinated, on February 19, 1965, after independence as he drove out of his house in Nairobi. Mr Kisilu told Justice John Mativo of Nairobi Milimani High Court that he was arrested on February 24 and was tortured at police station. “The former constitution just like the 2010 constitution prohibited torture and acts of inhuman and degrading treatment.

Source: Daily Nation May 20, 2017 12:22 UTC