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Criminal law [2026] KEHC 13063 (KLR)

Lushola v Republic

Lushola v Republic (Criminal Revision E051 of 2026) [2026] KEHC 13063 (KLR) (18 August 2026) (Ruling)

Court
High Court
Case number
Criminal Revision E051 of 2026
Judge
["DR Kavedza"]

The court found sufficient grounds to review the sentence because the applicant had served a substantial term, demonstrated rehabilitation, received favourable probation and prison reports, and showed good prospects for reintegration; continued incarceration would add little rehabilitative value, so a probation order better served sentencing objectives.

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  • Trafficking in narcotic drugs
  • Review of lawful sentence
  • Probation order
  • Rehabilitation
  • Remission
  • Non-custodial sentence
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Criminal law [2026] KEHC 12814 (KLR)

Mwangi v Republic

Mwangi v Republic (Criminal Revision E091 of 2026) [2026] KEHC 12814 (KLR) (12 August 2026) (Ruling)

Court
High Court
Case number
Criminal Revision E091 of 2026
Judge
["DR Kavedza"]

The applicant failed to demonstrate any legal or factual basis warranting interference with the sentence. The sentence was lawful, within statutory limits, proportionate to the offence, and there was no shown misdirection, material omission, or reliance on irrelevant factors. Rehabilitation, remorse, and unsupported family hardship were insufficient to justify revision.

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  • Sentence review
  • Interference with sentencing discretion
  • Trafficking in narcotic drugs
  • Mitigating factors
  • Non-custodial sentence
  • Rehabilitation
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Criminal law [2026] KEHC 12173 (KLR)

Republic v Khamala

Republic v Khamala (Criminal Case E010 of 2025) [2026] KEHC 12173 (KLR) (31 July 2026) (Sentence)

Court
High Court
Case number
Criminal Case E010 of 2025
Judge
["RPV Wendoh"]

The court held that despite the accused’s guilty plea, remorse, and first offender status, the gravity of the unlawfully caused death, the deceased’s loss, the accused’s alcohol-related temper, and the need for rehabilitation and deterrence justified a custodial sentence of fifteen years.

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  • Manslaughter
  • Plea agreement
  • Mitigation
  • Pre-sentence report
  • First offender
  • Rehabilitation
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Criminal law [2026] KEHC 12518 (KLR)

Kitole v Republic

Kitole v Republic (Criminal Revision E067 of 2026) [2026] KEHC 12518 (KLR) (31 July 2026) (Ruling)

Court
High Court
Case number
Criminal Revision E067 of 2026
Judge
["WM Kagendo."]

The applicant had served part of a one-year sentence for obtaining by false pretences, had responded positively to rehabilitation, demonstrated remorse and good conduct, and had support for reintegration. The court found that the purposes of punishment, rehabilitation, and reintegration would be better achieved by commuting the unexpired custodial term to community service under probation supervision.

Source excerpt

  • Prison decongestion
  • Community service order
  • Sentence commutation
  • Rehabilitation
  • Probation supervision
  • Supervisory jurisdiction over subordinate courts
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Criminal law [2026] KEHC 12030 (KLR)

State v Plimo

State v Plimo (Criminal Case E014 of 2025) [2026] KEHC 12030 (KLR) (31 July 2026) (Sentence)

Court
High Court
Case number
Criminal Case E014 of 2025
Judge
["RPV Wendoh"]

The court found the murder to be extremely serious and brutal, causing devastating harm to the deceased's family and child witness. Although the accused was treated as a first offender and had a hearing impairment, those factors did not outweigh the gravity of the offence. The court therefore imposed a lengthy custodial sentence to reflect deterrence, denunciation, and rehabilitation.

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  • Murder
  • Mitigation
  • Sentencing discretion
  • First offender
  • Hearing impairment
  • Deterrence
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Criminal law [2026] KEHC 12599 (KLR)

Odari v Republic

Odari v Republic (Criminal Petition E012B of 2023) [2026] KEHC 12599 (KLR) (30 July 2026) (Sentence)

Court
High Court
Case number
Criminal Petition E012B of 2023
Judge
["JN Kamau"]

The court found that the petitioner had demonstrated substantial rehabilitation, remorse, and positive prison conduct, and that the rehabilitative purpose of sentencing had largely been achieved. Balancing deterrence, retribution, denunciation, and reintegration, the court substituted the death sentence with 30 years’ imprisonment and ordered that the remand period from 31 March 2012 to 4 April 2013 be credited under section 333(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code.

Source excerpt

  • Resentencing
  • Death sentence substitution
  • Mitigation
  • Section 333(2) credit for time served
  • Rehabilitation
  • Pre-sentence report
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Criminal law [2026] KEHC 11913 (KLR)

Ondeyo v Republic

Ondeyo v Republic (Criminal Revision 89 of 2026) [2026] KEHC 11913 (KLR) (30 July 2026) (Ruling)

Court
High Court
Case number
Criminal Revision 89 of 2026
Judge
["DR Kavedza"]

The court accepted the probation report, found the applicant rehabilitated and remorseful, and held that he was eligible for early release after serving six years and seven months of a ten-year sentence. Sentence review was therefore allowed.

Source excerpt

  • Revision of sentence
  • Rape conviction
  • Rehabilitation
  • Non-custodial sentence
  • Early release
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Criminal law [2026] KEHC 12064 (KLR)

Ng'eno v Director of Public Prosecutions

Ng'eno v Director of Public Prosecutions (Criminal Miscellaneous Application E091 of 2025) [2026] KEHC 12064 (KLR) (30 July 2026) (Ruling)

Court
High Court
Case number
Criminal Miscellaneous Application E091 of 2025
Judge
["PN Gichohi"]

The application failed because the High Court had no jurisdiction to interfere with a sentence already resentenced by a court of concurrent jurisdiction. Since the sentence had already been reviewed from life imprisonment to 30 years after consideration of the record, law, and sentencing guidelines, the Applicant’s renewed challenge amounted to an impermissible appeal against an earlier judicial decision.

Source excerpt

  • Defilement
  • Resentencing
  • Jurisdiction to review sentence
  • Proportionality in sentencing
  • Rehabilitation
  • Sentencing guidelines 2023
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Criminal law [2026] KEHC 12535 (KLR)

Republic v Maritim alias Kamaliza

Republic v Maritim alias Kamaliza (Criminal Case E030 of 2023) [2026] KEHC 12535 (KLR) (30 July 2026) (Sentence)

Court
High Court
Case number
Criminal Case E030 of 2023
Judge
["TA Odera"]

Balancing the irreversible loss of life, use of a lethal weapon and other aggravating factors against the absence of premeditation, the deceased’s sustained aggression, the accused’s youth, first-offender status, guilty plea, remorse, surrender, favorable social inquiry, and rehabilitation prospects, the court found this to be an exceptional case suitable for a stringent three-year probation order under the Probation of Offenders Act.

Source excerpt

  • Manslaughter
  • Probation order
  • Mitigation
  • Victim impact
  • Rehabilitation
  • Reconciliation
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Criminal law [2026] KEHC 11869 (KLR)

Odhiambo v Republic

Odhiambo v Republic (Miscellaneous Criminal Application E274 of 2025) [2026] KEHC 11869 (KLR) (Crim) (30 July 2026) (Ruling)

Court
High Court
Case number
Miscellaneous Criminal Application E274 of 2025
Judge
["AM Muteti"]

The court held that it lacked jurisdiction to revisit or convert a custodial sentence that had been imposed by the High Court and affirmed by the Court of Appeal, but it could correct the sentence computation to reflect the mandatory requirement under Section 333(2) CPC by deducting only the actual remand period; the application succeeded only to that limited extent.

Source excerpt

  • Review of ruling
  • Sentence computation
  • Section 333(2) cpc
  • Non-custodial sentence
  • Medical grounds
  • Rehabilitation
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