Bicycle repairer gets 25 years for defiling minor

On the evening of October 21, 2008, a 15-year-old girl was walking home from Karurumo market in Embu County when she found Mark Kariuki, a well-known bicycle repairer, seated on his bicycle by the roadside.

She passed him and continued walking. When she had covered about 300 metres, she saw Kariuki riding on his bicycle before he stopped further down the road.