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The High Court at Kiambu found that the accused caused his daughter's fatal head injuries but was insane at the time, so a special finding was made and a pre-sentence report ordered.
The Court of Appeal upheld Dennis Okinyo Akello’s murder conviction, holding that no prejudice arose from the absence of a mental assessment before plea and that provocation was not properly raised.
On first appeal, the High Court at Meru upheld a conviction for attempted murder and a 15-year sentence, finding the presumption of sanity was not rebutted by credible evidence of mental illness.
The High Court at Embu found the accused caused his brother's death but, given prior signs of mental illness, entered a special finding of guilty but insane under Section 166(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The Court of Appeal upheld a guilty-plea conviction for defilement and declined to interfere with a life sentence, finding the plea unequivocal and properly taken.
The High Court convicted a father of murder after he threw his infant daughter to the ground, causing fatal brain haemorrhage, finding him not sane at the time, and ordered detention at the President's pleasure pending sentencing submissions.
The High Court convicted the accused, a son of the deceased, of murder after he repeatedly struck his father on the head with a hoe, finding malice aforethought was proved under Section 206(b) of the Penal Code.
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