This archive report was first published on 6 August 2019.
On August 6, 2019, the High Court substituted a death penalty with 19 years in jail for Kelvin Muleshi, a man convicted of carjacking and robbing passengers in a bus heading to Kakamega from Nairobi.
According to Judge Jesse Njagi, the sentence against Muleshi was commensurate with the offence committed.
Muleshi was charged with three counts of robbery with violence and was sentenced to death on one count while the other two were suspended.
He was convicted alongside four others - Geoffrey Kituyi, Nelson Bunyasi, John Oduori, and Collins Mudavadi - for robbing the passengers on the night of November 9, 2009.
The five were said to have been armed with a toy pistol and metallic rods which they used to hurt the passengers before robbing them.
Following the Supreme Court's declaration that the death penalty was unconstitutional, Muleshi petitioned the State for a re-sentencing.
However, Justice Njagi held that the 10 years period Muleshi had served was not sufficient for the offence committed.
