Extremist to hang for killing moderate Mombasa Sheikh

Mohamed Sudi Said at the High Court in Mombasa during the ruling on his murder case, yesterday. Sudi will be hanged for killing Sheikh Mohamed Idris in Likoni in 2014. [Photo:Kelvin Karani/STANDARD]

A radical Islamist has been sentenced to death for the murder of former Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) chairman Sheikh Mohamed Idris.

The High Court in Mombasa, yesterday ruled that Mohamed Sudi Said, whom the police have also linked to seven other murders at the Coast, was an extremist with links to a radical mosque in Mombasa and among the group that evicted Idris from preaching there.