FRANCIS THUO NJUGUNA………….. vs REPUBLIC [2002] KEHC 566 (KLR)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAIROB CRIMINAL DIVISION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.1040 OF 2001 (From Original Conviction and Sentence in Criminal Case

No.8194 of 2000 of the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Kibera).

FRANCIS THUO NJUGUNA…………..………………..APPELLANT VERSUS REPUBLIC……………………………………………….RESPONDENT ORDER ON REVISION

Criminal appeal Nos. 1040 and 1041 of 2001 are consolidated. Both appeals against the convictions are summarily rejected. Both appellants were first offenders and were in remand for nearly one year before the case finally ended.

The prison sentences against both appellants on both counts are reduced to a period served. The order for the strokes against both appellants on each of the two limbs of the 1st count is reduced to one stroke each limb. I order that the two strokes be inflicted on each of the two appellants and they be released forthwith thereafter.

V.V. PATEL JUDGE 10/4/2002