A Kenyan court has sentenced a University lecturer to death
for murdering her husband in a row over family property.
Sheila Wanjiku
Kibinge, who is a lecturer in the US and also a Ph.D. student, was handed the
sentence on Tuesday by High Court Judge Jessie Lessit, Kenya's Daily Nation
reports.
“The prosecution, led by State Prosecutor Evelyn Onunga, has
proved beyond reasonable doubt that you purposed to kill your husband although
you allege you were both kidnapped the night your husband was executed,” Justice
Lessit said. .
The judge dismissed her defence that her husband was killed
by kidnappers. The judge said that she murdered her husband by shooting him in
the head, neck and chest in Gitaru village, Kikuyu, Kiambu County.
“The number of shots fired at the deceased, Leonard Kibinge
Kiruri on the night of April 14, 2014, establishes pre-meditated malice
aforethought,” Justice Lessit stated. .
Sheila, however pleaded for leniency, but the judge said,
“there is only one verdict provided for in the law and that is “to suffer death
in the manner prescribed by the law.”
That's it!
It serves her right
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