{"id":4750,"date":"2012-12-21T03:07:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T03:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenyan-accused-of-cannibalism-sorry\/"},"modified":"2012-12-21T03:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T03:06:03","slug":"kenyan-accused-of-cannibalism-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenyan-accused-of-cannibalism-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Accused of Cannibalism \u2018sorry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1839 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Above:{Police mugshots of Alexander Kinyua (left) and 37-year-old Ghanaian, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie. Mr Kinyua is suspected of killing his Ghanian house-mate and eating parts of his body.}<\/p>\n<p>{{A Kenyan man 22 years, accused of cannibalism apologised in a US court for carrying out a separate attack on a fellow student.}}<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy deepest apology and sympathies will not be able to cover up what happened,\u201d Mr Alexander Kinyua said in pleading guilty, on Wednesday, but denied criminal responsibility in a beating that left his victim blind in one eye.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Gale Rasin, presiding over a court in Baltimore, ordered Kinyua committed to a psychiatric hospital. He could eventually be released if a team of doctors and a judge deem Mr Kinyua to no longer be a menace to society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t agree with the court system that he has a chance to be let go,\u201d Mr Kinyua\u2019s alleged victim Joshua Ceasar, 22, said outside the courtroom on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>In ordering Mr Kinyua\u2019s confinement, judge Rasin said: \u201cThe evidence is overwhelming that Mr Kinyua was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the offence,\u201d according to the Sun\u2019s account.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say they will now move ahead with a first-degree murder charge against Mr Kinyua stemming from the dismemberment of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, a 37-year-old Ghanaian who had been living in the Kinyua family home in Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above:{Police mugshots of Alexander Kinyua (left) and 37-year-old Ghanaian, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie. Mr Kinyua is suspected of killing his Ghanian house-mate and eating parts of his body.} {{A Kenyan man 22 years, accused of cannibalism apologised in a US court for carrying out a separate attack on a fellow student.}} \u201cMy deepest apology and sympathies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}