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Kiambu farmer to hang for defiling and murdering daughter, 15

James Irungu is led to the cells after he was sentenced to death for killing his 15-year-old daughter [PHOTO: FIDELIS KABUNYI/STANDARD]

NAIROBI: A farmer who defiled then murdered his 15-year-old daughter six years ago has been sentenced to hang.

The two had been staying together after the girl's mother died a few years earlier. The deceased's two other siblings were living with their maternal grandmother.

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