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KENYA: FORMER POLICEMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDER
February 7, 2023: A Kenyan former policeman on 3 February 2023 was sentenced to death for the murder of a human rights lawyer, his client and a taxi driver.
Frederick Leliman and three others were convicted of carrying out the murders in 2016, in one of a series of cases of alleged police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kenya.
Court evidence showed that the three victims were abducted after a court session, were briefly locked up and then were taken out and murdered in an open field before their bodies were dumped in a river.
Leliman will serve a life sentence as there have been no executions in Kenya since 1987. Two other officers and a police informer received sentences of 20-30 years. (Source: AP, 03/02/2023)
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