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ELIZABETH MWIYATHI SYENGO
V.
REPUBLIC

(2014) JELR 105496 (CA)

Court of Appeal 17 Jan 2014 Kenya
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Suit Number:Criminal Appeal 108 of 2009
Judges:John Wycliffe Mwera, Patrick Omwenga Kiage, Agnes Kalekye Murgor
Location:Nairobi
Other Citations:Elizabeth Mwiyathi Syengo v. Republic [2014] eKLR

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

The appellant ELIZABETH MWIYATHI SYENGO appeals to this Court against her conviction for the murder of LENAH MUNYAO. She also appeals against the sentence of death imposed on her by the learned trial judge (Lenaola, J.) on 29.4.09.

The particulars of the charge that led to the appellant’s conviction and sentence aforesaid, as contained in the information dated 30.1.0, are that on 27.2.01 at Mwitiki Location in Kitui District of the Eastern Province, the appellant murdered the deceased.

The prosecution case in a nutshell was that on the material morning the deceased, then heavily pregnant, was at her home where she lived with BENEDICT MUNYAO CHENGO (PW3), her husband of one year. He had left at 7.00am for Kalinga Primary School where he was a teacher. At about 10.00am, the deceased received a visitor who came not in peace. That visitor, identified by EUNICE WAYUA MASUMBE (PW2) as the appellant, was seen coming out of the couple’s house in hot pursuit of the deceased.…

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