Rapists ordered to cut grass then freed

Over 1m campaigners have signed a petition demanding justice after three men accused of gang-raping a Kenyan schoolgirl were ordered to cut grass as punishment.

The ferocious attack on the girl and lack of action towards those who carried it out has sparked outrage in the country.

The 16-year-old girl was reportedly attacked, beaten, and then raped by six men as she returned from her grandfather’s funeral in western Kenya in June, before the gang dumped her, bleeding and unconscious, in a deep sewage ditch.