JUDGMENT OF THE COURT
Dr. Richard Otieno Muga “Muga” resides at Kanyamedha Location in Kisumu County. On the night of 15th June, 2010, at around 3.00a.m., he was awoken up from his deep sleep by people who had surrounded his bed and had put on electricity light in the bedroom. They ordered him not to look at them. He noticed that they were armed with axes, pangas and rungus. They put a panga on his back but when he pleaded with them not to kill him, he was told “Professor we have nothing against you, if you have money give us”. He directed them to his trouser in which there was Kshs. 10,000/=, they also took Kshs. 40,000/= from a drawer, a wrist watch, laptop, DVD, music system, bottles of wine, blackberry and two Nokia mobile phones, flat screen TV, travelling bag, digital radio cassette, speakers and other documents.
Muga came to notice after the robbers had left that they gained entry through the dining room window and had also cut the garage door. At the end of the harrowing experie…