This archive report was first published on 23 June 2020.
On June 19, 2020, the Court of Appeal quashed the death sentence of two police officers, Benjamin Kahindi and Stanley Okoiti, who were convicted of killing their colleague, Administration Police Constable Joseph Onchuru, in Nairobi.
According to the court ruling, the two officers will serve 10 years in jail, commencing from November 1, 2018, when High Court judge Stella Mutuku convicted them. The court considered their clean records of service and the fact that they are family men.
Justices William Ouko and Agnes Murgor reduced the sentence, stating that the two officers were first offenders and had served in the force between 20 and 30 years. However, Judge Fatuma Sichale dissented from the ruling, declining to sign the judgement.
The court found that the prosecution had established beyond any reasonable doubt that Onchuru and his two relatives, Geoffrey Nyabuto and Amos Makori, did not deserve the manner in which they were killed on October 7, 2014, at M-Club in Kangemi, Nairobi.
