Francis Muriuki Muraguri v Republic [2020] KEHC 6887 (KLR)

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA

AT NANYUKI

CRIMINAL REVISION NO.4 OF 2020

FRANCIS MURIUKI MURAGURI........................APPLICANT

VERSUS

REPUBLIC...........................................................RESPONDENT

(Revision of the Original Sentence dated 18. 02. 2020 in Nanyuki

Criminal Case No.208 of 2017– N. Thuku, PM)

07. 04. 2020

Before Justice H P G Waweru

In Chambers

ORDER ON REVISION

1.  I have examined the Lower Court record herein.

2. The convict, FRANCIS MURIUKI MURAGURI, was on 18/02/2020, sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for the offence of giving false information to a public officer contrary to section 129(a) of the Penal Code.

3.  Because of the current Coronavirus (COVID -19) crisis in our country, and in order to decongest the prisons, and in exercise of the court’s powers under Article 159(2) of the Constitution and Section 362 and 364 of the Criminal Procedure Code, I hereby set aside the sentence imposed and substitute therefore the period already served.

4.  The convict shall therefore be set at liberty forthwith unless otherwise lawfully held.

5.  It is so ordered.

DATED AT NANYUKI THIS 7TH DAY OF APRIL, 2020

H.P.G. WAWERU

JUDGE.

DEPUTY REGISTRAR

NANYUKI HIGH COURT