Court slashes award to student shot in the eye by warder

Quinter Amondi (centre) with parents, Saline and Fredrick Ojwando. [File, Standard]

A woman who was hit in the eye by a stray bullet said to have been fired by a prison warder in Migori County in 2016 will now be paid Sh6.1 million as compensation and not the Sh14 million that had been awarded to her by a magistrate's court.

Justice Roselyn Wendoh of the High Court in Migori made the determination following an appeal by the Attorney General after a magistrate's court made the award to Quinter Amondi, who lost her eye following the incident.