KENYA: MAN TO HANG FOR BASHING GIRL'S HEAD ON TREE STUMP

A casual labourer has been sentenced to hang for the murder of a five-year-old girl by bashing her head into a tree stump.
The Court of Appeal rejected the claim by Moses Mbaya alias Mbara Mbura that the girl accidentally slipped from his hands as he flung her into the air. He blamed the incident on alcohol but the High Court, which first convicted him of the 2010 murder, and the Court of Appeal, which rejected his appeal, dismissed his defence. It all began in the morning when the family of Muriuki (the court protected his identity because minors testified during the case) woke up at his home in Uruku location, Meru in a joyous mood. After having breakfast together since it was a weekend, Mr Muriuki’s three daughters went out to play. They did not leave their compound.