MAU MAU CASE FILED AGAINST BRITAIN TO BE HEARD IN JULY.

 

The case in which four former Mau Mau fighters have sued the British government for compensation over torture will be heard in July.

A spokeswoman for the Leigh Day Solicitors Rebekah Read said that the hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice will be heard from July 16 to 27.

Read said the hearing will revolve around preliminary legal arguments to establish whether a fair trial was still possible despite the lapse of time.

The four former Mau Mau fighters Ndiku Mutua, Paulo Nzili, Wambugu wa Nyingi and Jane Mara, who are in their 70s and 80s, were in London mid-last year to hear the ruling on whether the British government could still be sued over crimes committed during the colonial era.

The British government had argued through her lawyers that the former freedom fighters should have instead sued the Kenya government, which took over all liabilities after Independence.

The High Court in London, however, ruled that the British government could still be sued and gave the four applicants the go-ahead to sue over brutality they allegedly suffered in the hands of the colonial army during the 1950s uprising.