Two men accused of participating in a mob that lynched a suspected criminal, were on Friday arraigned in court and charged with murder.
Benson Wasike and Boniface Sifuna were charged with jointly lynching the late Lazarus Wanjala while in the company of others not before the court.
The crime was allegedly committed in Sidhiko Village, Navakholo, on November 3, 2018.
The two and fellow villagers are said to have been angered by a move by the deceased to burn the house of his former wife, and stab animals to death in Dorofu village.
They reportedly assaulted him using crude weapons and burnt his body, days after the deceased threatened to burn the house if the wife, with whom they had separated, did not return to him.
The body was then collected by officers from Navakholo Police Station who took it to the Kakamega County Referral Hospital.
Kakamega High Court Judge Jesse Njagi was told by a public inquest that the two indeed participated in the murder.
He heard that the two were the last people seen with the deceased, before his death.
The two whose mental statuses have since been ascertained as fit for trial denied the charges and were released on a Sh500,000 bond with a surety of a similar amount.
The case will be heard again on November 21.