Aluk v Republic (Criminal Revision E019 of 2025) [2025] KEHC 19472 (KLR) (1 July 2025) (Ruling) Neutral citation: [2025] KEHC 19472 (KLR) REPUBLIC OF KENYA IN THE HIGH COURT AT LODWAR CRIMINAL REVISION E019 OF 2025 PJO OTIENO, J JULY 1, 2025 BETWEEN BENSON ALUK ........................................................................................ APPLICANT AND REPUBLIC ............................................................................................ RESPONDENT RULING 1. The applicant was charged with the ofience of stealing a motor cycle, Reg. No. KMEF 808A, contrary to section 278A of the penal code. 2. He pleaded guilty and when the facts were read out to him, he admitted the facts entirely. 3. The court thus convicted him on own plea of guilt and on revelation by the prosecution that the accused had a previous record of similar ofience, sentenced him to serve an imprisonment term of seven years. That is the maximum term stipulated by the statute. 4. The court vies the trial court to have taken all the relevant factors into account in metting out the sentence it did and therefore there is nothing incorrect, illegal or improper in the sentence to merit being revised. 5. The application lacks merits and is thus dismissed. DATED, SIGNED AND DELIVERED VIRTUALLY THIS 1ST DAY OF JULY, 2025. PATRICK J O OTIENO JUDGE https://new.kenyalaw.org/akn/ke/judgment/kehc/2025/19472/eng@2025-07-01 1
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