Mutai v Republic [2024] KEHC 11587 (KLR)

Mutai v Republic (Miscellaneous Criminal Application E153 of 2024) [2024] KEHC 11587 (KLR) (26 September 2024) (Ruling)

Neutral citation: [2024] KEHC 11587 (KLR)

Republic of Kenya

In the High Court at Kisumu

Miscellaneous Criminal Application E153 of 2024

RE Aburili, J

September 26, 2024

Between

Philip Mutai

Applicant

and

Republic

Respondent

(From the original conviction and sentence in Tamu Senior Principal Magistrate’s Court Criminal Sexual Offences Case No. 11 of 2018)

Ruling

1. The Convict Philip Mutai seeks for consideration of 3 months and 9 days spent in custody prior to sentencing in Tamu SPM Sexual Offences Case No. 11 of 2018 on 9th August 2018.

2. No court proceedings are filed to enable this court establish the truth in the case where he was sentenced to serve 10 years’ imprisonment for the offence of rape of a person with disability contrary to Section 7 of the Sexual Offences Act.

3. I find no merit in the application which is dismissed and this file is closed.

DATED, SIGNED AND DELIVERED AT KISUMU THIS 26THDAY OF SEPTEMBER, 2024R. E. ABURILIJUDGE