It was the tears streaming freely down Stephen 'Stevo' Munyakho's cheeks that said it all.

It was a raw expression of a journey filled with untold pain, endurance, and, finally, liberation.

They were not just tears of joy but of freedom and the overwhelming emotion of closing a dark chapter marked by trauma, suffering and immeasurable loss.

Stevo, 51, returned home to Kenya in the early hours of Tuesday, touching down at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 12:50 am from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.