John King'ori Wachira and John Maina Mwangi were sentenced...

John King'ori Wachira and John Maina Mwangi were sentenced to death by hanging after being found guilty of storming into their victim's home armed with a toy pistol and other crude weapons and robbing him of money and a mobile phone on 20 February 2003.
Following a tip-off, police raided a house in which the two suspects were sleeping and recovered the cell-phone. Wachira told the court in mitigation that he suffered from a stroke and could therefore not defend himself, while Mwangi pleaded that he was an orphan, but the magistrate said the law did not offer an alternative sentence for violent robbers.