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A teenage boy who strangled an eight-year-old girl has been spared the death penalty due to his age at the time he committed the offence.
Justice Jessie Lesiit ruled that although Erick Kimani was proved guilty of killing Rose Wanja in August 2014, he was still a teenager, aged 17 years, at the time and that he would be jailed at the President’s pleasure.
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