A Kerugoya court has sentenced three people, among them a woman, to death for robbery with violence.
They were accused of stealing Ksh3,300 from Ibrahim Mwangi a taxi driver in Kerugoya town.
The three, Josphat Njoroge, Hilda Njau and Mikeson Mutinda had been accused that on October 5, 2016, at Kabendoso area within the outskirts of Kerugoya town, while armed with dangerous weapons, they robbed Mwangi of the said monies while using actual violence on him.
On the second count, the three, on the same date while armed with knives, they tried to rob Mwangi of his car (a Toyota Fielder) valued at Ksh900,000 while equally unleashing violence on him.
In his testimony, Mwangi revealed that Njoroge and Hilda approached him at the Kerugoya taxi bay and asked him to ferry them to Kabendoso where they were going to view a piece of land they wanted to buy.
“But on stopping, two other men boarded the vehicle after which I immediately developed a hunch that I was in serious trouble,’’ he told the court.
Mwangi also recalled how Njoroge and Mutinda grabbed him, tied a rope around his neck and strangled him as Njau pointed him with a knife.
Mwangi continued to narrate that a tractor driver who was driving in the opposite direction sensed that something was amiss and packed across the road.
The ensuing commotion is said to have attracted bodaboda riders and members of the public who arrested the three who had tried taking cover in a nearby chicken pen, but police arrived just before they were lynched.
While passing the sentence, area magistrate Eric Wambo stated that the evidence presented plus the witnesses proved that the death sentence was the only verdict for such an offense.
“Since you have declined to show any iota of remorse even after being accorded the opportunity, I hereby sentence you to death as prescribed by the law and accord you 14 days within which to appeal,” Wambo ordered.