Driver found guilty of killing three sentenced to 4 years

Defence lawyers will also be appealing the sentence

Piece by: CLAUSE MASIKA
Crime

• During the mitigation Lawyer Danstan Omari told the court that the offence was not related to murder and urged the court to have leniency on the accused persons.

Crime scene
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The offence of driving the vehicle under the influence of alcohol was however dropped after the court found that the prosecution failed to prove the case.

Before that, the case took long since it was affected by the transfer of magistrates and prosecutors.

While responding to the verdict the victims said that the verdict was a relief to them having waited for years for the case to come to an end.

During the mitigation Lawyer Danstan Omari told the court that the offence was not related to murder and urged the court to have leniency on the accused persons.

Defence lawyers will also be appealing the sentence

The victim's lawyer urged the court to grant a harsh penalty to the accused person to deter other drivers from being reckless on the road

David Gichuki who was driving his car, a Toyota Land Cruiser, on the wrong side of the road at around 1 am killed activist Gladwell Otieno’s son, Silvano Mandla Otieno, and two others after a head-on collision.

 

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