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Let court decide fate of elderly, says judge

80-year old Tom Mungai ( right) and 85-year old Mureithi Ngari are led by a prison warden outside a Nakuru law Court on February 16,2015. The two are alleged to have defiling a ten-year old girl on September 2014 at Kiambogo in Gilgil in Nakuru County. [PHOTO:KIPSANG JOSEPH]

Parliament should consider changing the law to allow courts to decide whether or not to send elderly people to jail, a judge has said.

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