This archive report was first published on 4 July 2019.
On July 3, 2019, Nairobi Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi handed down significant prison sentences to three individuals convicted of abetting the 2015 Garissa University attack.
Two of the convicts, Mohamed Ali Abdikar and Hassan Aden Hassan, were each sentenced to 41 years in prison.
The third convict, Rashid Charles Mberesero, a Tanzanian national, received a life sentence for his involvement in the terror assault.
The Garissa University attack, which occurred on April 2, 2015, resulted in the deaths of 148 people. All four gunmen involved in the attack were killed by security forces.
The suspected ringleader of the attack, Mohamed Mohamud, also known as "Kuno," was killed in southwestern Somalia in 2016.
