KENYA. THREE SECURITY GUARDS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR VIOLENT ROBBERY
security guards Richard Maeta, Elias Shikuku Wanjala and Peter Mulati Wafula were sentenced to death for violently robbing novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his wife. John Kiragu Chege, a nephew of the writer, was acquitted for lack of evidence.
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security guards Richard Maeta, Elias Shikuku Wanjala and Peter Mulati Wafula were sentenced to death for violently robbing novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his wife.
John Kiragu Chege, a nephew of the writer, was acquitted for lack of evidence. Mulati was also separately convicted for sodomizing Njeeri, wife of Ngugi on the night of August 11, 2004. In a judgement of over 200 typed pages, judge Oseko convicted the former security guards of attacking the Ngugis and subjecting them to a harrowing experience by burning the professor with cigarette butts before making off with cash and a laptop.
John Kiragu Chege, a nephew of the writer, was acquitted for lack of evidence. Mulati was also separately convicted for sodomizing Njeeri, wife of Ngugi on the night of August 11, 2004. In a judgement of over 200 typed pages, judge Oseko convicted the former security guards of attacking the Ngugis and subjecting them to a harrowing experience by burning the professor with cigarette butts before making off with cash and a laptop.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Kenya Times, 13/12/2006)
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