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Probation for sisters who killed their father

Emily Wanjira (24) and her sister Esther Kagendo (28) at High Court in Embu when they pleaded guilty to unintentionally killing their father. They beat him up after he used their brother's funeral funds to treat himself to alcohol. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard]?

The High Court in Embu has sentenced two sisters to two years’ probation term after they pleaded guilty to unintentionally killing their father. 

Esther Kagendo, 28, and her sister Emily Wanjira, 24, admitted before the High Court in Embu to killing Zachary Kiura Mutindi at Kathita village in Embu West sub-county on the night of September 7 this year in a domestic row.

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