ANTHONY KAMU KAMAU vs REPUBLIC [2002] KEHC 44 (KLR)

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROBI

CRIMINAL DIVISION

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1017 OF 2000

(From Original Conviction and Sentence in Criminal Case No.1562 of 1999

of the Senior Principal Magistrate’s Court at Kiambu).

ANTHONY KAMU KAMAU…….…………………………APPELLANT

VERSUS

REPUBLIC…………………………………………………RESPONDENT

J U D G M E N T

The appeal is only against the sentence of 3 years imprisonment plus three strokes passed on23/8/00 which the appellant is serving since then. He has no previous conviction and was in remand for about 16 months before the trial ended.

The prison sentence is reduced to a period served and the strokes to two strokes which be inflicted and the appellant be released forthwith thereafter.

V.V. PATELJUDGE27/3/2002