A man has been sentenced to death by a Gucha court for robbery with violence. Simon Mochobo was convicted for robbing Consolata Ntenga of goods and cash valued at Sh80,000 in 2000 in Kenyenya district. He was with Peter Oywonga and Majuma Gekwabe.He was accused of committing other robbery incidents on Jackline Kemunto and Simon Ntenga whom he robbed Sh70,000 and Sh15,000 respectively both of which they denied.

Oywonga and Gekwabe were acquitted because they were not identified, Ogembo Principal Magistrate Lily Nafula. Nafula found Mochobo guilty of robbing Ntenga as her evidence was overwhelmingly incriminates the first accused and it had been corroborated. “I have no doubt in my mind that the first accused has been placed in the first complainant’s compound on the night of the robbery and convict him accordingly,” ruled Nafula. “I proceed to sentence the accused to serve the mandatory sentence of death for the first count,” she further ruled.Ntenga, the complainant in the first count told the court that on the said date, she reported to Nyangusu police that she had received threats from some people warning her that she would not stay in her compound.

That same night as she slept, hooded robbers attacked her compound. She struggled with them after hitting one on the face and disarming another prompting them to flee into her banana farm. She identified the attackers using light from her 12 battery torch before running to Riokindo AP post to report the attack. The second complainant, Ombui also identified the first accused as the one who cut him on the right hand and fingers