BAKKACIMA BLOG

  Joe Ligon has been released from a Pennsylvania prison after spending almost 70years in jail. He is  believed to be the oldest and longest-serving juvenile lifer in the United States. Ligon was incarcerated in February 1953 at the age of 15, given a mandatory life sentence after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a robbery and stabbing spree in Philadelphia with four other teenage boys. The crime left six people wounded and two people dead ( Charles Pitts and Jackson Hamm,  identified by the Philadelphia Inquirer). "I got caught up, in terms of being in the streets," Ligon told reporters after his release last week.

  A  30-year jail sentence has been given to one Mr Stephen Ngila,  who chopped off his wife’s hands for failing to bear him children. The court in Machakos, Machakos County, jailed Stephen Ngila, 39, for attempted murder for chopping off Jackline Mwende’s hands with a machete in 2016. Justice Brenda Bartoo said the court had taken note that the accused was not remorseful for the offence. Ngila was given  14 days to appeal the judgement.