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Grace Wangui wears a beaming and beautiful smile. It is hard to believe that she is a convicted highway robber with a death sentence hanging over her head.
“I knew that one day I would account for everything,” said the-mother-of three who has called Nakuru Women’s Prison home for the past 18 years.
“But I didn’t know it was going to be that soon,” she said, adding that she regrets her dark past.
“I miss my kids so much. Life in prison is not pleasant, and I know how it feels like to be denied freedom,” she said.
Wangui, now 50 years old, says she can’t explain what drove her into crime, given that she had a good job and never lacked anything.
“We were a notorious gang of five, and we used to attack...”
