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

Nairobi; Kenya: 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.

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