Officer convicted as co-accused freed in ex-MP’s son murder

Alexander Chepkonga (left) with former police officer Dickson Munene in court during the hearing into the murder of James Nganga. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

By John Muthoni

Nairobi, KENYA: The Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of ex-Police Inspector Dickson Munene in the case of the murder of former Gatundu North MP Patrick Muiruri’s son. On the other hand, the same court set free his co-accused and a businessman, Alex Chepkonga, with whom he had initially been sentenced to hang. The two had been sentenced to hang by High Court judge Mohammed Warsame after he found them guilty of the death of James Ng’ang’a in Westlands after a scuffle in a club where they had been drinking.