KENYA: JUDGES UPHOLD ROBBERY CONVICT’S DEATH SENTENCE

The Court of Appeal sitting in Kisumu, Kenya, has upheld a death sentence handed to a robbery convict.
Philip Kisavi will continue serving his sentence after his appeal was dismissed for a second time, following a carjacking incident he participated in five years ago.
The case was dismissed for lack of merit in a judgement issued by a three-judge-bench comprising of Justices Onyango Otieno, Hannah Okwengu and Festus Azangalala.
“In this case, the appellant not only participated in the crime but also actively did so according to the evidence availed in the record,” said the judges.
Kisavi was convicted by a Principal Magistrate’s court in Kakamega of various offences that include robbery with violence, assault, causing bodily harm and being in possession of a firearm without a certificate.
He was accused of committing the offence at Mbale market in Vihiga County. He had approached taxi driver Peter Kerogo on October 3 and hired his vehicle pretending that he had a patient at Lusui, who needed to be taken to the hospital. He later robbed him.