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Previously unpublished government emails reveal that the Home Office played a key role in the conviction of innocent father Ali Kololo in Kenya in 2013, then scrambled to try and cover it up when he was sentenced to death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reprieve’s head of UK Litigation Preetha Goplalan told The Observer<\/a> that Home Office officials were warned in 2012 that “the death penalty remains on Kenya’s statute books and may be available for one of the offences” but authorised the Metropolitan police’s deployment anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A decade after his conviction was overturned<\/a>, Ali Kololo is suing the Metropolitan police<\/a> for their role in this miscarriage of justice, but in a shameful repeat of history the Met are contesting Ali’s claim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Met should “put it’s hands up” over the case, apologise and pay compensation, Gopalan added. “Kololo is lucky to be free and to be able to mount a claim, but the question remains: is this still happening?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previously unpublished government emails reveal that the Home Office played a key role in the conviction of innocent father Ali Kololo in Kenya in 2013, then scrambled to try and cover it up when he was sentenced to death. 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