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ZACHARIA KOKOT LONDOPASH
V.
REPUBLIC

(2015) JELR 92986 (CA)

Court of Appeal 13 Apr 2015 Kenya
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Suit Number:Criminal Appeal 106 of 2013
Judges:Alnashir Ramazanali Magan Visram, Martha Karambu Koome, James Otieno Odek
Location:Nyeri
Other Citations:Zacharia Kokot Londopash v. Republic [2015] eKLR

JUDGMENT OF THE COURT

This is a second appeal against the judgment of Wakiaga and Ombwayo, JJ., dated 21st November, 2013, in which the appeal by Zacharia Kokot Londopash, (the appellant), herein was dismissed. The brief essential background information of this matter is as follows. On 24th November, presumably in the year 2007, (the year is not indicated in the evidence of PW1), at about 8 p.m., John Mwangi Kamunya, (PW1), the complainant in this matter while in the company of Paul Nderitu Gichuhi, (PW2), were going home after work. They were travelling in the complainant’s motor vehicle KIH 769 Pick Up and the complainant was driving. When they reached Mwiyego River, the vehicle stalled as it ran out of petrol. Both witnesses got out of the vehicle and started refueling from a jerry can which was in the vehicle. As they were doing so, they suddenly saw a group of six people emerge from a nearby bush.

The people asked the complainant whether he could give them a lift to Naromoru, but t…

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