Court declines to order release of 3,000 convicts of robbery with violence

Justice Lawrence Mugambi. [File, Standard]

The High Court has declined a bid to order the mass release of over 3,000 inmates charged or convicted of robbery with violence, including seven suspects linked to the murder of former Kabete MP George Muchai, although the charges were based on sections that do not exist in law.

Justice Lawrence Mugambi, however, acknowledged that the DPP has continued to use unconstitutional Penal Code provisions to charge robbery with violence suspects since 2016, when the court had declared the sections unconstitutional.