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Nagudi v Republic [2025] KEHC 10130 (KLR)

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Nagudi v Republic (Miscellaneous Criminal Application E035 of 2025) [2025] KEHC 10130 (KLR) (14 July 2025) (Ruling)

Neutral citation: [2025] KEHC 10130 (KLR)

Republic of Kenya

In the High Court at Kibera

Miscellaneous Criminal Application E035 of 2025

DR Kavedza, J

July 14, 2025

Between

Amina Nagudi

Applicant

and

Republic

Respondent

Ruling

1. The applicant was charged and after a full trial convicted for the offence of grevious harm contrary to section 234 of the Penal Code. He was sentenced to serve five (5) years imprisonment.

2. He filed the present undated application seeking sentence review. The grounds raised are that the sentence served is sufficient rehabilitation. He urged the court to release him.

3. I have considered the application, the grounds in support and the applicable law. From the record of the trial court, the court considered the applicant’s mitigation, the time spent in remand custody and the fact that the applicant was a first offender before sentencing. Having considered the application in its totality. The sentence imposed was also legal in the circumstances of the case.

4. In my view of the foregoing, I find no good cause or reason to revise the sentence imposed by the trial court. The application dismissed for lacking in merit.Orders accordingly.

RULING DATED AND DELIVERED VIRTUALLY THIS 14THDAY OF JULY 2025_________________D. KAVEDZAJUDGE