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<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong> Judge at sentencing accused Ruth Kamande of &#8216;manipulative&#8217; behaviour that included accessing the victim&#8217;s mobile phone as well as showing no remorse for the vicious attack which left &#8216;blood all over&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Kamande, 24, was convicted in May in the gruesome knife attack that killed her boyfriend Farid Mohammed, in 2015</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Thursday she was sentenced to death for the murder of Mohammed, 24, whom she slashed 22 times in a brutal stabbing rampage </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>While awaiting trial Ruth Kamande, who won a prison beauty pageant while awaiting trial, in Aug 2015 </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The court rejected her defense that she stabbed Farid Mohammed 25 times to stop him from infecting her with HIV<br />
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<h6><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Judge sent a message: &#8216;I want young people to know that it is not cool to kill your boyfriend or girlfriend even where you feel disappointed or frustrated &#8211; don&#8217;t do it</span></strong><span style="color: #000000;">&#8216;</span></h6>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296513" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ruth-Kamande-2.jpg" alt="Ruth Kamande 2.JPG" width="684" height="442" />Ruth Kamande, charged with killing her partner in 2015, awaits sentencing in a Nairobi court on Thursday</strong></h6>
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<div>Last August 30, Ruth Kamande had been crowned &#8216;Miss Lang&#8217;ata Prison&#8217; in Nairobi, a murder suspect, she was in jail awaiting trial for the murder of her boyfriend Farid Mohammed.<br />
Ruth Kamande, who won a prison beauty pageant while awaiting trial, slashed her partner Farid Mohammed to death in 2015 and was convicted in May. In a particularly gruesome slaying, Kamande stabbed Mohammed 25 times, killing the 24-year-old.<br />
A Kenyan court Thursday, sentenced the jailhouse beauty queen, 24, to death for murdering her boyfriend, drawing criticism from rights groups who called the punishment &#8216;inhumane&#8217;.</div>
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<h6 class="image-wrap fff-pic"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-296511" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Farid-mohammed-1.jpg" alt="Farid mohammed 1.JPG" width="662" height="649" />Ruth Kamande, was on trial for slashing her partner Farid Mohammed [photo], to death in 2015</strong></h6>
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<p>Slamming the actions of the defendant High Court judge Jessie Lesiit passing sentence on Thursday said : &#8216;I want young people to know that it is not cool to kill your boyfriend or girlfriend even where you feel disappointed or frustrated &#8211; don&#8217;t do it,&#8217; judge Jessie Lesiit admonished the convicted woman.<br />
&#8216;Instead, it is cool to walk away and thereafter to forgive,&#8217; he added.<br />
<img class=" wp-image-296520 alignleft" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ruth-Kamande-6.jpg" alt="Ruth Kamande 6" width="257" height="345" />The judge accused Kamande [photo, left], of &#8216;manipulative&#8217; behaviour that included accessing the victim&#8217;s mobile phone as well as showing no remorse for the vicious attack which left &#8216;blood all over&#8217; the crime scene.<br />
&#8216;I think passing any other sentence than the one prescribed [death] would turn the accused into a hero,&#8217; said Lesiit.<br />
Ruth Kamande testified that she stabbed Farid Mohammed 22 times to stop him from infecting her with HIV. She claimed that in September 2015 she and Farid had fought over his HIV status and that he had deliberately tried to infect her. Kamande claimed Mohammed then threatened to kill her if she revealed his HIV positive status.<br />
“Mohammed told me he would rather kill me and himself than have his status exposed,” Kamande told the court.<br />
“I stabbed him severally with a kitchen knife, which fell on my chest from his hands after I overpowered him, after putting my two thumbs in his eyes to save my life.”<br />
They got into a fight after she discovered a card for HIV treatment bearing his name hidden under a mattress, Kamande said.</p>
<h6><strong> <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296522" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Judge-Jessie-Lesiit-1.jpg" alt="Judge Jessie Lesiit 1.JPG" width="681" height="391" />Judge Jessie Lesiit dismissed Kamanda&#8217;s self-defense argument while sentencing her to death</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-296521" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ruth-Kamande-7.jpg" alt="Ruth Kamande 7" width="672" height="449" /><strong>Kamande bows her head in grief as the court rejected her self-defense plea on Thursday, and handed down the death penalty</strong></h6>
<p>Addressing the presiding judge, she said: “Your honour it pained me to know that the person whom I loved and trusted so much was to ruin my life by infecting me with HIV and Aids.”<br />
A skeptical Judge Lessit however rejected the account and termed Kamande a ‘controlling and manipulative lady’ who acted out of jealousy and disappointment, mainly because she felt Mohammed had been cheating on her.<br />
The judge described the defendant&#8217;s HIV defense as &#8216;laughable&#8217;, an after thought that she injected into her defense in the middle of the trial.<br />
The prosecution earlier accused Kamande of inflicting injuries on herself, in a bid to cover up her crime.<br />
Rights group Amnesty International called the sentence &#8216;cruel, inhumane and outdated&#8217;.<br />
&#8216;This sentence is a blow to Kenya&#8217;s progressive record in commuting death sentences to terms of imprisonment,&#8217; said Amnesty director Irungu Houghton.<br />
The victim&#8217;s family insisted the sentence matched the crime.<br />
&#8216;We&#8217;re glad that this day came and his grandparents, his sister were actually in court today when this verdict was given,&#8217; the victim&#8217;s tearful aunt Emmah Wanjiku told reporters after the sentencing.</p>
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<h6 class="mobile-gallery-icon"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296512" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Ruth-Kamande-1.jpg" alt="Ruth Kamande 1.JPG" width="692" height="446" />Murder suspect Ruth Kamande [photo], had been crowned &#8216;Miss Lang&#8217;ata Prison&#8217; in Nairobi, Aug 30, 2017. She was in custody awaiting trial for the stabbing death of her boyfriend Farid Mohammed</strong></h6>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;He had just started his job when his life was cut short.&#8217;<br />
Kamande&#8217;s lawyer Joyner Okonjo said she would appeal the sentence.<br />
Kenya has an effective ban on carrying out death sentences and no death row prisoner has been executed since 1987.<br />
The country&#8217;s Supreme Court ruled in December 2017 that the mandatory death sentence for murder and armed robbery was unconstitutional, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.<br />
The death sentence remains on the statute books however.</p>
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Kenyan beauty queen, 24, accused of ‘showing no remorse’ is sentenced to death for killing her boyfriend – Ruth Kamande stabbed the victim 22 times in a brutal stabbing rampage
