Court upholds seven-year jail term for cops who killed Kwekwe Mwandaza

Former Kinango DCIO Veronica Gitahi and Constable Issa Mzee at Mombasa High Court. (Photo: Kelvin Karani/Standard)

Coast security officials are reeling in shock after the Court of Appeal upheld a seven-year jail sentence imposed on two police officers by the High Court on February 15 last year.

Exactly a year and two days from the day Justice Martin Muya jailed former Kinango DCIO Veronica Gitahi and Constable Issa Mzee, it was a second time of pain and gnashing of teeth by the appellants and their police colleagues when three judges of the Court of Appeal declared that the officers were rightfully convicted and jailed for manslaughter regarding the killing of a teenager, Kwekwe Mwandaza, in Kwale in 2014.