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Wrongful Conviction

#060 Jason Flom with Pete Ouko

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.45.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2018

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In 1998, Peter Ouko was taken to Kamiti Maximum Prison in Kenya and was sentenced to death in 2001. His sentence would later be commuted to life imprisonment by Kenya’s former President Mwai Kibaki in 2009. Instead of bitterness, Mr. Ouko decided to forgive his tormentors and make the best of his time in prison, becoming the first inmate to graduate with a University of London Diploma in Law while behind bars. He is currently in his final year as an LLB student in the same University. Peter later won his freedom in October 2016 and continues to support and advocate for those individuals who remain on remand. In his dual role as an Ambassador of the African Prisons Project and Founder of the Youth Safety Awareness Initiative, Pete Ouko today champions access to justice for inmates and the indolent in society while using social enterprise to advocate for a crime free world.

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0:00.0

I've never been in trouble in my life. I didn't even have a parking ticket. I was brought up like cops or the good guys.

0:09.0

I didn't know what was going to happen, but I do know that everything was stacked against me. Everything, like everything.

0:17.0

This isn't supposed to happen this way. I'm innocent. I know I'm innocent. I know I had nothing to do with this. How is this possible?

0:28.0

I grew up trusting the system. I grew up believing that every human being should do the right thing.

0:33.0

And that's why even though I knew I was dealing with corrupt people, I wasn't going to brave anyone to get me out of prison.

0:39.0

Because I wouldn't live with the fact that I brave my way out of my wife's death.

0:44.0

I'm not innocent to prove I'm guilty until I prove my innocence and that's absolutely what happened to me.

0:51.0

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