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Kamweru & another v Republic [2025] KEHC 10110 (KLR)
The High Court declined to revise 10-year kidnapping sentences, finding the trial court had considered mitigation, remand time, and first-offender status.
Rono & another v Republic [2025] KEHC 7843 (KLR)
The High Court upheld the convictions but reduced the appellants’ lawful sentences for grievous harm, kidnapping, and conspiracy, ordering probation for the remainder.
Maighacho v Republic [2025] KEHC 5219 (KLR)
The High Court allowed a criminal appeal against convictions for defilement and kidnapping, finding material contradictions in the prosecution evidence and quashing the sentence.
Juma v Republic [2025] KEHC 7240 (KLR)
The High Court at Migori dismissed a criminal appeal against convictions for defilement and kidnapping, but ordered sentence to run from first arraignment.
Otieno & another v Republic [2025] KEHC 1515 (KLR)
The High Court allowed a criminal appeal, quashed convictions for robbery, kidnapping and gang rape, and found the identification evidence unsafe.
Mugendi v Director of Public Prosecutions [2024] KEHC 7185 (KLR)
The High Court upheld a defilement conviction, set aside a kidnapping conviction, and reduced a life sentence to 15 years' imprisonment.
Kaingu v Republic [2024] KECA 566 (KLR)
Court of Appeal upheld the convictions for rape, kidnapping, and threatening to kill, but reduced the rape sentence from life imprisonment to 45 years.
Okwiri v Republic [2024] KEHC 4031 (KLR)
The High Court revised a sentence after finding the trial court failed to credit remand time under section 333(2) CPC, and ordered the applicant’s release unless otherwise lawfully held.
Tudo v Republic [2024] KEHC 1792 (KLR)
The court found that the offences of defilement and kidnapping were so closely connected in time, intent, and continuity of action as to constitute a single transaction. Therefore, the sentences for both offences should run concurrently, not consecutively. The trial court erred in ordering consecutive sentences, and the appeal on sentence was allowed to the extent that the sentences would run concurrently from the date of original sentencing. The court reaffirmed the principle that concurrent sentences are appropriate where offences arise from the same transaction, and there were no exception…
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Mwajuma v Republic [2024] KEHC 650 (KLR)
The High Court found that the trial magistrate properly conducted the voir dire examination of the child complainant, satisfying statutory requirements. The evidence established that the appellant kidnapped the minor and held her in captivity, as corroborated by multiple witnesses. Medical evidence confirmed forced penetration, and the complainant's age was proven to be under eleven years, meeting the statutory threshold for defilement under section 8(2) of the Sexual Offences Act. The appellant's defence was considered an afterthought and not credible. The sentence imposed was within the sta…
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