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Waititu & another v Republic [2025] KEHC 3708 (KLR)

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Waititu & another v Republic (Criminal Revision 328 of 2024) [2025] KEHC 3708 (KLR) (26 March 2025) (Ruling)

Neutral citation: [2025] KEHC 3708 (KLR)

Republic of Kenya

In the High Court at Kibera

Criminal Revision 328 of 2024

DR Kavedza, J

March 26, 2025

Between

Alex Wamagu Waititu

1st Applicant

Anthony Mwaura Muroki

2nd Applicant

and

Republic

Respondent

Ruling

1. This file was opened for purposes of considering whether the convicts Anthony Mwaura Muroki and Alex Wamagu Waititu are suitable for consideration of their sentence review in the spirit of prison decongestion pursuant to the Chief Justice Memo dated 7th December 2022.

2. The applicants were convicted for the offence of Robbery with violence contrary to section 295 as read with section 296(2) of the Penal Code. They were each sentenced on 13th September 2011 to serve ten (10) years imprisonment.

3. According to the probation report dated 4th February 2025 on record the Applicants have already served the full sentence at Kiambu Prison and were released on 27th August 2024.

4. I therefore find that the Applicants completed the sentence.Orders accordingly.

RULING DATED AND DELIVERED VIRTUALLY THIS 26TH DAY MARCH 2025. D. KAVEDZAJUDGE