Kenyan Maasai woman recounts assault that led to prison
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Tuko
Kenyan Elizabeth Matayan was convicted after assaulting her boyfriend’s partner, who lost sight in one eye during the altercation in September 2023. Now on probation after a judicial review, she was elected Miss Lang’ata Prison in 2025, Tuko reports.
Elizabeth Matayan, a 21-year-old Maasai woman at the time of the incident, was convicted after confronting a woman she had found with her boyfriend. The assault left the woman permanently blind in one eye, Tuko reports.
Three years after being imprisoned, Matayan was released and is serving a probation sentence after a court reviewed her case. In October 2025, she was elected Miss Lang’ata Prison, a contest organised at the Nairobi prison.
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