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‘I don't want to go back to Kenya and hide my sexuality’
Gay rugby player KEN MACHARIA will report to Bridgewater Police station today where he fears he may be detained. He tells Ben Cowles his story
After 9 nyears out of the closet, Ken Macharia is under threat of deportation to Kenya where homosexuality is illegal and gays live in danger.
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KEN MACHARIA arrived into Britain in 2009 to study a masters degree in mechanical engineering at the the University of the West of England.
“When I was in Kenya,” he tells me over the phone, “I was hiding my sexuality and at the time that was normal practice. I had to hide who I was.
“And when I first came to Britain I was still overcoming the same fears I had back there. I didn’t let people know I was gay and felt shy and fearful about it.”
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