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A fact from Jasper Abraham murder case appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that British outrage at the sentencing of a white Kenyan settler to just two years imprisonment for the 1923 killing of a black employee eventually led to the replacement of the colony's legal code?
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... that British outrage at the sentencing of a white Kenyan settler to just two years imprisonment for the 1923 killing of a black employee eventually led to the replacement of the colony's legal code? Source: "Sheridan elected to award the minimum sentence of two years rigorous imprisonment" from page 487 of Anderson, David M. (September 2011). "Punishment, Race and 'The Raw Native': Settler Society and Kenya's Flogging Scandals, 1895–1930". Journal of Southern African Studies. 37 (3): 479–497. doi:10.1080/03057070.2011.602887. The Colonial Office's outrage and attempts at reform, culminating in the 1930 replacement of the Indian Penal Code are covered at length in the subsequent pages
ALT1: ... that in 1923 a white settler in Kenya who flogged a black employee to death received just two years imprisonment? Source: Per above
@Dumelow: Good article. AGF on sources I can't access. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:03, 4 March 2023 (UTC)