After a long wait, justice has been finally served in the 2016 murder of Lawyer Willie Kimani with the convicts sentencing on Friday 3, 2023.
Policeman Fredrick Ole Leliman was sentenced to death for the killing of the lawyer and two others 6 years ago.
Delivering the sentence, Justice Jessie Lessit said Leliman was the mastermind of the foul murders.
Other convicts, police officers Stephen Cheburet and Sylvia Wanjiku were sentenced to 30 and 24 years in jail respectively while police informer Peter Ngugi was jailed for 20 years.
Cheburet, Leliman, Wanjiku and Ngugi were convicted on July 22, 2022.
Justice Jessie Lessit found them guilty of killing Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri on June 23, 2016.
The bodies of the three were found stashed in gunny bags in Ol Donyo Sabuk, Machakos County, on July 1, 2016.
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They had been dumped in River Athi and were found more than a week after the men were reported missing.
Justice Jessie Lessit termed the murder “a most foul murder, an execution that was most heinous.”
The accused have 14 days to appeal the ruling.
The prosecution presented 46 witnesses with the defence presenting 36 witnesses during the proceedings.
Lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Mwenda and the taxi driver were abducted after leaving Mavoko Law Courts in Machakos County on June 23, 2016.
They were leaving a court session in Mavoko where Mwenda had filed a case against a police officer.
They were later bundled into a vehicle and taken to Syokimau Police Post where they were locked up before they were later smuggled out and driven to a location where they were brutally murdered.
