Reobert Wanyonyi v Republic

Wanyonyi v Republic (Criminal Appeal E061 of 2024) [2025] KEHC 18883 (KLR) (19 December 2025) (Judgment) Neutral citation: [2025] KEHC 18883 (KLR) REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE HIGH COURT AT BUNGOMA CRIMINAL APPEAL E061 OF 2024 REA OUGO, J DECEMBER 19, 2025 BETWEEN REOBERT WANYONYI .......................................................................... APPELLANT AND REPUBLIC ............................................................................................ RESPONDENT (Being an appeal from a sentence meted by Hon. V.J YAOR (PM) in Webuye Senior Principal Magistrate’s Court, Criminal Case No. E258 of 2022 was meted out on the 23/05/2024) JUDGMENT 1. The appellant was charged and convicted of the offence of manslaughter contrary to section 202 as read with section 205 of the Penal Code and sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. 2. The appellant appeals against the sentence, seeking a more lenient sentence. The grounds of his appeal are that he is a first offender, remorseful, the breadwinner of his family and that the sentence be reduced on humanitarian grounds. 3. The appellant, in its submissions, urged the court to give an order that imprisonment should run from the date of arrest and the 15-year sentence to remain as it is. The appeal was opposed by the respondent, who urged the court to balance between the rights of the victim and the perpetrator. 4. The appellant having abandoned his other grounds on sentence in his submissions, I direct that the 15-year imprisonment shall run from the date he was first arraigned in court, that is, on 29/07/2022. DATED, SIGNED AND DELIVERED AT BUNGOMA THIS 19TH DAY OF DECEMBER 2025 R.E. OUGO JUDGE In the presence of: https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/kehc/2025/18883/eng@2025-12-19 1

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