In April 1953, Jomo Kenyatta was convicted of managing the Mau Mau at a trial that many legal scholars have since condemned as a travesty of justice. The prosecution's star witness was later revealed to have been bribed. Kenyatta maintained throughout that he had not managed the Mau Mau, though he had supported the broader independence movement. He was sentenced to seven years hard labour in a remote prison in Lokitaung, near the Ethiopian border. He was 63 years old. The man who would become Kenya's first president was being broken by British colonial justice.