Seven foreigners to serve life for trafficking heroin worth Sh1.3bn

Seven foreigners at a Mombasa Court in Mombasa County on Friday, March 10, 2023. The seven were crew members of a ship that was intercepted and destroyed by President Uhuru in 2014. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Seven foreigners condemned to life imprisonment on Friday for drug trafficking have described the sentence as a death penalty as the prosecution hailed it as a bold move by the courts.

In a landmark case, a magistrate's court in Mombasa slapped six elderly Pakistanis and an Iranian with maximum sentences for trafficking heroin worth Sh1.3 billion.