The family of one Lucy Njeri has appealed to the Kenyan government for help, after she was jailed for 20 years in Jordan.
The woman has been serving the sentence handed to her by a Jordanian court in October 2019 after she was found guilty of murder.
The courts say Lucy, 33, had killed her boyfriend Bakri H, a South Sudanese refugee, at their house in the Jordan capital, Amman in February 2018.
Njeri stuck to her testimony, pleading she did not kill her fiance. She told police that she found Bakri holding a knife when she entered the house.
She pleaded with him not to hurt himself but the man went ahead to cut his wrist followed by his throat. Njeri added that she tried to stop Bakri’s bleeding but it suffocated him.
However, the courts recieved an autopsy report that Njeri’s boyfriend was strangled.
Speaking to People Daily, Njeri’s mother Rahab Wanjiru, 57, said the family has never heard from her since she was convicted.
“My daughter had assured me on several calls that she made whenever she got a chance that she would win the case and immediately she was set free would come back home, I do not believe that I have to wait for the next 18 years before I can see her,” Wanjiru said.
Njeri’s father James Kuria said attempts to get help from the Jordanian Embassy in Nairobi and Kenya’s Foreign Affairs ministry have been unsuccessful.
