A Mombasa primary school teacher has successfully appealed his life imprisonment sentence before the High Court in Mombasa.
High Court Judge Martin Muya in his ruling ordered for Changoma Abdalla to be set free following his appeal.
Judge Muya said the prosecution did not put up a concrete case against the accused and acquitted him on grounds that the conviction was not safe as it did not meet the standards of proof required in a criminal case.
Abdalla was on November 2014 sentenced to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of assaulting his seven-year-old pupil.
The accused was accused of slashing his pupil’s scrotum with a razor blade on January 12, 2013, in Likoni.
The court was told that the teacher called the boy back to the classroom when he was going home and ordered him to remove his shorts and lie on the desk.
The boys said the teacher removed a razor blade and cut the pupil’s scrotum and asked him to dress and go home.
The court further heard that the boy was rushed to the hospital when he arrived home after his parents saw blood stains on his clothes.
The matter was later reported at Inukaa Police Station leading to the arrest of the accused who was identified by the pupil.
The accused was jailed for life by Mombasa resident magistrate Geoffrey Kimanga.