AG ordered to review sentences slapped on elderly prisoners

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. [File, Standard]

Elderly prisoners in different jails in the country might be going home soon.

This is after the Court of Appeal directed Attorney General Justin Muturi to kick-start legislative amendments to facilitate periodic review of sentences for convicts who are over 70 years - to determine whether they should be released or not.