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Criminal-law [2026] KEHC 4482 (KLR)

Njariani v Republic

Njariani v Republic (Criminal Revision E004 of 2026) [2026] KEHC 4482 (KLR) (7 April 2026) (Ruling)

The High Court revised a traffic sentence on Count I, reducing a Kshs. 50,000 fine to Kshs. 3,000 for proportionality, while upholding Count II.

  • Sentencing
  • Revision-of-sentence
  • Traffic-offences
  • Proportionality-in-sentencing
  • Criminal-revision
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Criminal-law [2026] KECA 149 (KLR)

Marianga v Republic

The Court of Appeal upheld Peter Otieno Marianga’s murder conviction on circumstantial and medical evidence, but reduced the 30-year sentence to 20 years.

  • Murder
  • Circumstantial-evidence
  • Failure-to-call-a-witness
  • Medical-evidence-on-cause-of-death
  • First-appellate-court-re-evaluation
  • Proportionality-in-sentencing
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Criminal-law [2026] KECA 9 (KLR)

EWM v Republic

The Court of Appeal upheld EWM’s life sentence for murder, finding the trial court properly considered mitigation and the grave facts of the killing.

  • Murder-sentence
  • Interference-with-sentence-on-appeal
  • Mitigation
  • Life-imprisonment
  • Proportionality-in-sentencing
  • Child-victim
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Criminal-law [2025] KEHC 10326 (KLR)

Korir v Republic

Korir v Republic [2025] KEHC 10326 (KLR)

High Court revision on sentence held that pre-trial custody must be counted under section 333(2) CPC, so the 15-year term runs from the arrest date.

  • Sentence-review
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
  • Revisionary-jurisdiction
  • Defilement-offence
  • Proportionality-in-sentencing
  • Criminal-revision
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Criminal-law [2025] KEHC 8608 (KLR)

Otiato v Republic

Otiato v Republic [2025] KEHC 8608 (KLR)

The High Court at Vihiga reduced David Otiato’s sentence from death, later commuted to life imprisonment, to 25 years after considering mitigation and rehabilitation.

  • Sentencing-review
  • Mitigation
  • Rehabilitation-of-offenders
  • Proportionality-in-sentencing
  • Sentence-review
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Criminal-law [2025] KEHC 6955 (KLR)

Nyandolo v Republic

Nyandolo v Republic [2025] KEHC 6955 (KLR)

The High Court upheld a conviction entered on a guilty plea for stock theft and dismissed the appeal against consecutive sentences.

  • Plea-of-guilty
  • Sentencing-principles
  • Concurrent-vs-consecutive-sentences
  • Stock-theft
  • Appeals-on-sentence
  • Proportionality-in-sentencing
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Criminal-law [2024] KEHC 16378 (KLR)

Kipruto v Republic

Kipruto v Republic [2024] KEHC 16378 (KLR)

The High Court at Eldoret reviewed a 5-month sentence for creating disturbance and reduced it to time served, ordering the applicant’s release unless lawfully held.

  • Sentencing-principles
  • Misdemeanour-offences
  • Custodial-vs-non-custodial-sentences
  • Proportionality-in-sentencing
  • Criminal-sentencing
  • Sentence-review
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Criminal-law [2024] KEHC 16256 (KLR)

Kagotho v Republic

Kagotho v Republic [2024] KEHC 16256 (KLR)

The High Court at Nyeri rejected res judicata and resentenced Joseph Waititu Kagotho from life imprisonment to 35 years, with time already served to count.

  • Resentencing
  • Mandatory-sentences
  • Right-to-fair-trial
  • Mitigation
  • Proportionality-in-sentencing
  • Jurisdiction
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Criminal-law [2024] KEHC 7811 (KLR)

Nyaga v Director of Public Prosecution

Nyaga v Director of Public Prosecution [2024] KEHC 7811 (KLR)

The High Court set aside a motor-vehicle forfeiture order, holding the appellant should have been allowed legal representation before the ruling on forfeiture.

  • Fair-trial-rights
  • Legal-representation
  • Forfeiture-of-property
  • Proportionality-in-sentencing
  • Criminal-law
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Criminal-law [2024] KEHC 6954 (KLR)

Dome v Republic

Dome v Republic [2024] KEHC 6954 (KLR)

The High Court reviewed a custodial sentence for stealing and substituted the remaining four months with community service, citing remorse, recovery of the items, and proportionality.

  • Sentencing-principles
  • Community-service-orders
  • First-offender-treatment
  • Proportionality-in-sentencing
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