How two sheets, a shirt and pair of trousers led man to his death

When a panga-wielding mugger chucked into a coffee bush at Kihiu Mwiri in Thika on April 28, 2005 waylaying passersby, his future looked ‘bright’.

With the sharp panga — glistening menacingly in the moonlight  — the thug, Simon Kang’ethe, was enthusiastic he would smile all the way back home later that night.