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Murang'a man to serve three-year jail sentence for killing friend over bet

Man gets three-year jail sentence for killing friend over bet.

A Murang'a man who stabbed his friend to death after a heated argument over who had won a bet has been handed a three-year jail term.

Murang’a High Court Judge Kanyi Kimondo had handed Ibrahim Mugera 10 years' imprisonment for killing his close friend Joseph Gitau, but reconsidered his decision due to the period that the accused had been in police custody.

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