A Kenyan who was arrested by Swedish police and who was reported to have been jailed is HIV positive. A Swedish official at Solna court clarified on Friday that the Kenyan has not yet been sent to jail but that his case is still going through the Swedish court system.
The Kenyan has been charged with rape and violating the freedom of his ex Swedish woman with whom he had one child. He was charged with violating the woman’s freedom from 1st July 2006 to 28th September 2007, rape on 28th September 2007 while he was also charged with “an attempt to mishandle” the woman on 28th September 2007 at Hässelby in Stockholm city.
The Kenyan is being held in solitary confinement with zero contacts because, according to the Swedish authorities, he might “try to contact the complainant”.
The Kenyan has also been charged with the offence of having several unprotected sexual intercourse with his former woman despite his knowledge that he was HIV positive soon after he returned from a trip to Kenya last year.
The Prosecution noted that in 2001, the Kenyan’s name was entered into the Swedish police register of criminals because of “violent resistance” to arrest and “pocession of a knife at a public place”.
Further, the Kenyan’s name is in Police register for having mishandled his former Swedish woman in 2005. Following the crime, the Kenyan was arrested, tried, found guilty and jailed for the offence.
The woman he was accused of having mishandled is the mother of his first born child. The woman who has currently accused him is the mother of his second child.
According to KSB investigations, the Kenyan was charged on 15th October and on the following day, he was picked up by police from his work place after which he was taken to Court last Friday the 19th October.
The case will come up again on November 2nd 2007. In the meantime, the Court ruled that the Kenyan will continue to remain in custody.
Okoth Osewe
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