Duncan Kimathi: Former USIU-Africa student sentenced to death for murder of colleague

A Nairobi court sentences former USIU-Africa student Duncan Kimathi to death for murdering Sarah Akello in a 2012 kidnapping-for-ransom case in Kiambu County.

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Justice Kanyi Kimondo delivered the sentence upon concluding that Kimathi, now 37, had acted with malice aforethought when he murdered Akello between June 30 and July 1, 2012, in the Kiamako area of Githunguri, Kiambu County.

At the time of her disappearance, Akello was a final-year International Relations student at USIU-Africa.

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She had told a friend she was heading to meet a man she had previously come across at the university library.

Her notebook contained the name of a person identified as Daniel Muriithi, along with a telephone contact, but the court established that Kimathi had no connection to Muriithi and concluded the identity had been fabricated as part of a scheme to lure her.

Source: Tuko