A Magistrate’s Court in Meru has slapped a 23-year jail sentence to a 53-year-old tractor driver who defiled his eight year old niece.
The man was found guilty by Meru Principal Magistrate Stella Abuya for the offence he committed on April 28, 2010 in Nancii village, Kiirua at around 8pm.
The Prosecution had preferred three counts related to sexual offence against the accused person.
Mutwiri had been sentenced to 30 years behind bars when he was taken to court on April 3, 2010 for plea taking where he pleaded guilty to the charges.However, he appealed the ruling prompting a full hearing in which the prosecution called seven witnesses.The girl moved the court when she narrated her ordeal in the hands of his uncle.
The girl had told the court how his uncle came home drunk and found her sleeping with his wife where she proceeded to where she was and committed the heinous crime.
The court further heard that the complainant screamed out of pain alerting her aunt, the wife of the accused who woke up to her rescue.She said her aunt pulled his husband prompting the convict to descend on his wife with kicks and blows.The two tip-toed to the kitchen where they spend the rest of the night.
The man’s wife i in her testimony told the court she called her sister to inform her of the incident the following day who came and took her to Meru Teaching and Referral hospital before reporting the matter at Kirima police station.
The accused was later arrested and charged with the offence