The accused person is 20 years old. He pleaded guilty to two counts of having sexual intercourse with his 15 year old girlfriend in contravention of s 70(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Cap 9:23]. The trial magistrate treated both counts as one for sentence and sentenced him to 12 months imprisonment 2 of which were suspended for 5 years on condition of good behaviour. More
The accused was charged with murder of his grandmother, Vhareta Deza, who died on the 19th of September 2016. The fatal assault is said to have been committed by the accused when he was a juvenile. He did not have a birth certificate at the time. According to the probation officer’s report the accused was born in 2001. He dropped out of school due to his parent’s inability to pay fees. He would therefore have been 15 at the time he committed the offence. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder. More
The accused pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder as defined in s 47 (1) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, [Chapter 9:23], (“the Criminal Law Code”). More
The appellant was charged with rape as defined in s.65 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act, [Cap 9:23]. He pleaded not guilty but was convicted after a trial. He was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment of which 6 years was suspended for 5 years on condition of future good conduct. More
The accused stands convicted on his own plea of guilty to a charge of culpable homicide committed under the most disturbing bizarre circumstances. The brief undisputed facts are thatsometime in 2009 the deceased rapedand infected the accused’s wife with the deadly aids virus. She in turn infected her husband and their newly born baby. More
