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Denial of conjugal rights amounts to cruelty, says judge

The woman accused her husband of failing to offer her emotional support, love, care and conjugal rights (Shutterstock)

A High Court judge has tried to solve the riddle of why marriages turn toxic to an extent couples can no longer tolerate each other.

Justice Reuben Nyakundi yesterday walked a couple to a bedroom, pensively explained to them the cause of marriage breakups, and concluded that the come-we-stay marriage between the couple, code-named RNO and BKJ, ought to be terminated.

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