Tanzania, Sept. 2 -- Arusha. The Court of Appeal has set free an aunt of a murdered seven-year-old child, Ms Mwasiti Abdallah, after it identified reasonable doubt in the evidence linking her to the murder.

In its judgment delivered on Monday, August 31, 2026, the court upheld the death sentence against Mr James Makuri, having satisfied itself that the remaining evidence proved his involvement in the murder of the child, Kaijage Odilo.

Kaijage, aged seven, was killed on March 14, 2021, in the Uwanja wa Ndege area, Madewa Ward, Singida Region, where his body was found abandoned.

A bench of three judges: Patricia Fikirini, Agnes Mgeyekwa, and Yohane Masara, delivered the decision acquitting Mwasiti and confirming James's sentence, in an ...