KENYA
Standard Digital
Updated Wednesday, May 8th 2013
By Lucas Ng’asike
LODWAR; KENYA: A Catholic priest charged on Tuesday in a Turkana court for allegedly sodomising a student has committed suicide.
The priest, Father John Manzi was found dead hours later on Tuesday night at the Catholic Diocese of Lodwar in Turkana Central district.
The cleric had appeared before a Magistrate’s court in Lodwar where he denied the sodomy charges and was released on a Kshs 100,000 bond pending hearing of the case.
He was not to live to face trial as the priest hanged himself with an electric wire in his house hours after leaving court.
Turkana Central deputy OCPD, Mr John Onditi confirmed the priest’s death saying diocese workers discovered his lifeless body Tuesday night.
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