Woman has sentence quashed by Tanzania court after over a decade on death row

A court of appeal in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Experts warn that Limbu could spend years more in prison waiting for her retrial. Photograph: Charles Bowman/Alamy

A woman with severe intellectual disabilities in Tanzania has had her conviction and death sentence quashed after spending more than a decade in prison awaiting execution.

Lemi Limbu, now in her early 30s, was convicted of the murder of her daughter in 2015. On 4 March, a court in Shinyanga, northern Tanzania, declared she can appeal. She will face a retrial, but a date has yet to be set.