Ruth Kamande Biography; Age, Mother, Appeal And Family

Ruth Kamande is the Kenyan sexiest inmate at Langata Women’s Prison who is famously known for stabbing her boyfriend Farid Mohammed twenty-two times with a knife till he kicked the bucket.

Ruth Kamande is 27 years old as of 2021. She committed the murder when she was 21 and Farid Mohammed, 24. In 2016, Ruth Kamande was crowned the Miss Langata Prisons; describing her as the sexiest inmate and she still holds the crown.

The Kenyan High Court presided over by Justice Jessie Lesiit sentenced Ruth Kamande to death on Thursday, 19 July 2018 stating that Ruth Kamande did not deserve mercy for the gender-based violence but Ruth Kamande argued that she committed the crime to save her life after the late boyfriend had threatened to end her life for discovering his HIV positive status.

Amnesty International-Kenya on Friday 20 July 2018 expressed its displeasure with the decision by Lady Justice Jessie Lesiit to sentence Ruth Kamande to death terming it as ‘retrogressive’ and a violation of Human rights.

Ruth Kamande Mother

Ruth Kamamder became popular after stabbing her boyfriend to death leading to her arrest. There has been no information about her family.

Ruth Kamande Appeal

Ruth Kamande proceeded to the Court of Appeal to have her death sentence overturned after High Judge Jessie Lessit sentenced her to death. However, the Court of Appeal judges Hannah Okwengu, Mohamed Warsame and Jamilla Mohammed declined to tilt the scales of justice in her favour. The judges rejected her plea of a lenient sentence.

“Upon close scrutiny of the evidence adduced, we cannot but conclude, as did the learned judge, that the appellant’s alleged defence of self-defence was unbelievable given the cogent and compelling evidence of the prosecution witnesses,” the judges ruled yesterday.

’In our view, the nature of injuries suffered by the deceased and admittedly caused by the appellant is a clear testimony that the appellant intended to kill, hence the offence of murder was proved beyond any reasonable doubt in regards to malice aforethought.”