REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE HIGH COURT OF KENYA AT MURANG’A CRIMINAL CASE NO. 2 OF 2020 REPUBLIC..…...................................................................................PROSECUTOR VERSUS GRACE NJERI KANYURU.....................................................................ACCUSED SENTENCE 1. The accused pleaded guilty to the offence of manslaughter under a plea agreement recorded on 8 th February 2021. The offence is grave and attracts a sentence of life imprisonment. 2. The facts here are truly tragic. On 27 th December 2019, the accused beat up her 9-year-old son mercilessly. She left him for dead outside a tea-buying centre at Ngorogocho. The autopsy shows he died from “head injury as a result of blunt force trauma” 3. I have paid heed to the mitigation tendered by her counsel, Mr. Waweru Nyambura. The accused is aged 40 and has three other children. She is first offender and regrets her conduct. But in all this the life of an innocent child was lost. 4. Sentence should be commensurate to the moral blameworthiness of the offender but also guided by the nature and gravity of crime. I sentence the accused to four (4) years imprisonment. The sentence shall run from 27 th December 2019, the date when she was first arrested and placed in custody. It is so ordered. DATED, SIGNED AND DELIVERED AT MURANG’A THIS 10TH DAY OF FEBRUARY 2022. KANYI KIMONDO JUDGE Sentence read in open court in the presence ofAccused. Ms. A. P. Gakumu for the Republic. Mr. Munene holding brief for Mr. Waweru for the accused. Ms. Susan Waiganjo, Court Assistant.
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