Republic v Francis Kariko Kimani [2014] KEHC 1313 (KLR)

REPUBLIC OF KENYA

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT NAKURU

CRIMINAL CASE NO. 100 OF 2010

REPUBLIC........................................................................................PROSECUTOR

VERSUS

FRANCIS KARIKO KIMANI.....................................................................ACCUSED

SENTENCE

Francis Kariko Mwangi (the Convict) was convicted of the offence of murder in a Judgment delivered on 5th December, 2014.

The killing of a small sickly child by the Convict, was a cowardly and dastardly violence inflicted upon one's own child.    It calls for deterrent sentence.

I sentence the Convict to thirty-five years imprisonment without the option of parole for the first twenty years.

Dated, signed and delivered at Nakuru this 9th day December, 2014

M. J. ANYARA EMUKULE

JUDGE