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Criminal Law [2025] KEHC 9252 (KLR)

Munyua & another v Republic

Munyua & another v Republic [2025] KEHC 9252 (KLR)

The High Court dismissed a criminal appeal against convictions for creating disturbance and assault causing actual bodily harm arising from a land dispute.

  • Creating Disturbance
  • Breach Of Peace
  • Assault Causing Actual Bodily Harm
  • Sentencing Principles
  • Criminal-appeal
  • Breach-of-peace
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Criminal Law [2025] KEMC 147 (KLR)

Republic v Mukanga

Republic v Mukanga [2025] KEMC 147 (KLR)

After a guilty plea, the court sentenced the accused to three years for threatening to kill and two months for creating disturbance, to run concurrently.

  • Threats To Kill
  • Breach Of Peace
  • Sentencing Guidelines
  • Mitigation
  • Custodial Sentences
  • Criminal-sentencing
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Criminal Law [2025] KEHC 5100 (KLR)

Nyakundi v Republic

Nyakundi v Republic [2025] KEHC 5100 (KLR)

The High Court at Nyamira declined to revise a one-year custodial sentence for guilty pleas to threatening to kill and causing a disturbance.

  • Threats To Kill
  • Breach Of Peace
  • Sentencing Review
  • Plea Of Guilty
  • Criminal-revision
  • Sentencing-review
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Criminal Law [2025] KEHC 5223 (KLR)

Karani v Republic

Karani v Republic [2025] KEHC 5223 (KLR)

The High Court at Nyamira revised a six-month sentence for creating disturbance and ordered Joshua Karani’s immediate release after he had served three months.

  • Plea Of Guilty
  • Sentencing
  • Revision Jurisdiction
  • Breach Of Peace
  • Criminal-law
  • Criminal-revision
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Criminal Law [2025] KEHC 3071 (KLR)

Nyokabi v Republic

Nyokabi v Republic [2025] KEHC 3071 (KLR)

The High Court at Nyahururu held that an eight-year sentence for creating disturbance was illegal because the Penal Code sets a six-month maximum.

  • Sentencing Review
  • Illegal Sentence
  • Breach Of Peace
  • Mitigation Of Sentence
  • Sentencing-review
  • Illegal-sentence
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Criminal Law [2025] KEMC 19 (KLR)

Republic v Mwengi & another

Republic v Mwengi & another [2025] KEMC 19 (KLR)

The prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against the accused persons for the offence of creating disturbance likely to cause a breach of the peace as the evidence presented was insufficient to prove the required ingredients of the offense in both counts.

  • Breach Of Peace
  • Criminal Procedure
  • Prima Facie Case
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Criminal Law [2025] KEHC 16782 (KLR)

Chemengu v Republic

Chemengu v Republic [2025] KEHC 16782 (KLR)

The High Court upheld Beatrice Namach Chemengu’s conviction for assault causing actual bodily harm and dismissed the State’s bid to enhance sentence.

  • Assault Causing Actual Bodily Harm
  • Burden Of Proof
  • Sentencing Principles
  • Malicious Damage To Property
  • Breach Of Peace
  • First Appellate Review
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Criminal Law [2024] KEHC 13883 (KLR)

Nyakundi v Republic

Nyakundi v Republic [2024] KEHC 13883 (KLR)

The High Court upheld the guilty plea but found a five-year sentence for breach of peace unlawful, substituting it with the six-month statutory maximum.

  • Plea Of Guilty
  • Sentencing Principles
  • Breach Of Peace
  • Repeat Offender
  • Appeal On Sentence
  • Criminal-appeal
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Criminal Law [2024] KEHC 7283 (KLR)

Oduor v Republic

Oduor v Republic [2024] KEHC 7283 (KLR)

The High Court allowed prison decongestion relief and ordered the applicant to serve the remainder of his sentence on community service.

  • Sentencing Review
  • Community Service Orders
  • Prison Decongestion
  • Breach Of Peace
  • Criminal-revision
  • Community-service-orders
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Criminal Law [2024] KEHC 5714 (KLR)

Republic v Njuki

Republic v Njuki [2024] KEHC 5714 (KLR)

The High Court dismissed an appeal against acquittal for forcible detainer, holding that while possession without colour of right was shown, breach of peace was not proved.

  • Forcible Detainer
  • Breach Of Peace
  • Possession Without Colour Of Right
  • Criminal Standard Of Proof
  • Land Ownership Disputes
  • Forcible-detainer
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