Former Kenyan policeman sentenced to death for murder

Kenyan police handed heavy sentences for rights lawyer's murder

NAIROBI (Reuters) -A Kenyan court sentenced three police officers and their civilian informant to decades in prison on Friday for the 2016 murder of human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two others. The case triggered outrage in Kenya, where police face frequent allegations of brutality and extrajudicial killings but are almost never charged. Kimani, his client Josephat Mwendwa and their driver, Joseph Muiruri, were killed shortly after filing a…

2 former SARS officers sentenced to death for murder

The two officers were found guilty of the extrajudicial killing of two suspects in SARS custody. Two officers who served in the now defunct police unit, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), have been convicted and sentenced to death by hanging by a High Court sitting in Port Harcourt. The officers had been standing trial for the extrajudicial killing of Michael Akor and Michael Igwe, who died in their custody after being arrested for allegedly ste…

Kenyan police sentenced for murder of rights lawyer

Three Kenyan police officers were on Friday given sentences ranging from 24 years in jail to the death penalty for the brutal murder of a rights lawyer and two other people. The bodies of lawyer Willie Kimani — who had criticised police abuse — as well as his client Josephat Mwenda and driver Joseph Muiruri were found wrapped in sacks and dumped in a river outside Nairobi in June 2016. The torture and killing of the three men sparked furious pro…

Former Kenyan policeman sentenced to death for murdering 3

A former Kenyan policeman was sentenced to death Friday for the murder of a human rights lawyer. Four people were convicted of carrying out a series of murders in 2016.

Court sentences two ex-SARS officers to death over murder of suspects

A high court in Port Harcourt, Rivers state capital has sentenced two former operatives of the disbanded special anti-robbery squad (SARS), over the murder of suspects

Former Kenyan policeman sentenced to death for murder

A Kenyan former policeman was sentenced to death on Friday for the murder of a human rights lawyer, his client and a taxi driver.