Arusha. Acram Ashirafu, who appealed against a 30-year prison sentence for sodomising a 10-year-old child, has ended up with a harsher punishment after the High Court’s Bukoba Sub-Registry dismissed his appeal and increased the sentence to life imprisonment.
Mr Ashirafu, who was 19 and a secondary school student when the offence was committed, had challenged a Bukoba District Court judgment that convicted him of sodomising the child and sentenced him to 30 years in prison.
The High Court, however, ruled that the sentence imposed by the lower court was unlawful because the law prescribes life imprisonment for the offence where the victim is under 18.
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