Opposition supporters boycotted the election and clashed with police, forcing authorities to postpone voting in some areas.

Henry Makiwa, from the Christian charity World Vision UK told Premier that staff were in touch with a representative in the East African country and he asked that people pray for the nation.

He said: “This political process and the reports we are getting on violence is not so good and doesn’t bode well for the future, safety and protection of the children of Kenya.”

A source said one person was killed in the opposition stronghold of Kisumu County, another in Homa Bay in the west, and the third in Athi River town outside the capital, Nairobi.

Authorities have postponed voting in several counties until Saturday because tear gas, burning barricades and gangs of young people preventing voting in some towns.

However, Mr Makiwa told Premier young people shouldn’t be held responsible for violence in the country.

He explained: “At the core of our work is the children themselves who are very often, never the cause of violence – especially of a political nature but always the victims.”

While most of Kenya was peaceful, voter turnout was relatively low even in some regions considered to be strongholds for President Uhuru Kenyatta, who was declared the winner of an 8th August election that later was nullified by the Supreme Court.

Opposition leader Mr Raila Odinga, whose legal challenge to the…

A new House of Commons report suggested some sexual or violent offences committed under the age of 18 should not always be automatically flagged up in checks.

MPs said the current approach is hindering access to employment, education, housing, insurance and visas for travel for large numbers of people.

Pastor Philip Noel from Jesus House in London counsels young people, and some have criminal records.

He told Premier that difficulties to secure jobs and housing sometimes drive them back to crime.

He explained: “Society’s not allowing the youth to forget their past.

“The youth don’t actually forgive themselves and the circle of friends that have wide open arms are the friends that were in the crimes in the first place.”

MPs have called for a major overhaul of the regime, saying it undermines youth justice principles and may fall short of the UK’s international obligations.

Under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, individuals are not required to divulge past convictions and cautions once they have become “spent” – meaning a certain period of time has passed.

But there are some circumstances when disclosure can be requested, and employers are required to carry out checks when hiring people for certain roles such as work with children or vulnerable adults.

Pastor Noel told Premier: “I’ve witnessed many of them have put lies on their CV to actually get in front of an employer in the first place.

“The majority of the time the outcome is not good. So they’re…

Felix Ngole, of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said he was expressing a traditional Christian view and complained that university bosses unfairly stopped him completing a postgraduate degree.

But Deputy High Court judge Rowena Collins Rice has ruled that university bosses acted within the law following a High Court trial in London.

Mr Ngole had argued that his rights to freedom of speech and thought, enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, had been breached.

But lawyers representing the university argued that he showed ”no insight” and said the decision to remove him from the course was fair and proportionate.

They said Mr Ngole had been studying for a professional qualification, adding that university bosses had to consider his fitness to practise.

Judge Collins Rice said freedom of religious discourse was a public good of great importance.

But she said social workers had considerable power over the lives of vulnerable people and said trust was a precious professional commodity.

She said that after weighing the facts of this case she decided to dismiss Mr Ngole’s claim for judicial review.

Mr Ngole posted comments two years ago, when in his late 30s, the judge had been told.

He was taking part in an debate on a Facebook page about Kim Davis, a state official in the US state of Kentucky, who refused to register same-sex marriages.

Mr Ngole said he had argued that Mrs Davis’s position was based on the “Biblical view of same-sex marriage as a sin”.

He…