JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
At about 6.30 a.m. on 2nd August, 2001, Susan Wangui Ngure, bid goodbye to her parents in Gikambura village, Kiambu, and left for her school, Magutuini Primary School, where she was in standard four. She never made it there. Her dead body was discovered eight days later in a bush, not far from her home, with a missing left leg, missing private parts and a deep cut near one of her ears. No one witnessed the macabre killing. On the strength of two pieces of circumstantial evidence, Anthony Magua Gituchu, the appellant now before us, was suspected to have caused the death and was charged for the offence of murder contrary to section 203 as read with section 204 of the Penal Code, before the superior court. According to the Information filed by the Attorney General, between the 2nd day of August, 2001 and 10th day of August, 2001, at Gikambura Village in Kiambu District of Central Province, the appellant murdered Susan Wangui Ngure (“the deceased” ).
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