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Muslim convert to hang for mass murder

A former Mungiki member who converted to Islam and trained with Al Shabaab has been sentenced to death after pleading guilty to participating in last year’s mass slaughter of villagers in Lamu County alongside slain British jihadist Thomas Evans.

Gituge Ngamau is now being held at Shimo la Tewa Prison in Mombasa pending transfer to Naivasha Maximum Security Prison.

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