Obar v Republic (Criminal Revision E224 of 2024) [2024] KEHC 16153 (KLR) (17 December 2024) (Ruling) Neutral citation: [2024] KEHC 16153 (KLR) REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE HIGH COURT AT KISUMU CRIMINAL REVISION E224 OF 2024 RE ABURILI, J DECEMBER 17, 2024 BETWEEN ERICK OTIENO OBAR .......................................................................... APPLICANT AND REPUBLIC ............................................................................................ RESPONDENT (From the original conviction and sentence in Kisumu Chief Magistrate’s Court Criminal Case No. 497 of 2019) RULING 1. The Sentence Review Report on the convict as filed on 22nd November 2024 is rejected as the victims of the ofiences who lost over Kenya Shillings One Million were never interviewed by the Probation Officer. 2. The Report is one sided and does not consider the pain sufiered by those who work so hard to raise their money which is swept away at once by fraudsters of convict’s type who want to revive his stationery business upon release yet not refunded defrauded money. 3. The application for sentence review is dismissed. 4. File closed. DATED, SIGNED AND DELIVERED AT KISUMU THIS 17TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2024 R. E. ABURILI JUDGE https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/kehc/2024/16153/eng@2024-12-17 1
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