Habitual robber jailed for 20 years

A man described by a Kisii court as a habitual offender will serve 20 years for robbery.
Peter Nyabate faced two counts of robbery with violence but was found guilty of a lesser offence of robbery by Kisii Chief Magistrate Maxwell Gicheru.

Nyabate had robbed Eunice Kwamboka Sh500 and threatened to use violence on her on March 21 in Bonchari. He also robbed Moraa Onsare of Sh50 and threatened to beat her.
He denied the two counts of robbery with violence.

However, Gicheru found him guilty of a lesser offences of robbery and sentenced him to 10 years in jail for each offence. The sentences will run concurrently.
"He does not seem to have learnt from previous convictions. He deserved a custodial sentence because he is a habitual offender," ruled Gicheru.

In 1998 he was convicted of breaking into a house and stealing and jailed for 12 months. In 2001, he was sentenced for three years and three strokes of cane for a similar offence.
And in 2004, he was sentenced to two years imprisonment for breaking into a house and stealing.

A sex pest has been jailed for life by a Kisii court for defiling his six-year-old niece.
Evans Mogire Kebwaro committed the offence in Kiogoro Division, Kisii District. The young girl narrated to Kisii Chief Magistrate Maxwel Gicheru how Kebwaro grabbed and took her to his house.

She was with her brothers but they left her when it started raining. Her uncle took advantage of the situation.
"He removed my panties and did bad things to me. It was very painful," she said amid sobs.
However, Kebwaro said the complainant’s family fabricated the accusations because of a land dispute.
But Gicheru said all the prosecution and witnesses had given credible evidence.
"The case against the accused is proved beyond reasonable doubt and I convict him to life imprisonment," Gicheru said.