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Court reduces ‘shamba boy’ life sentence to 20 years

A convict serving life imprisonment for sexual offence got a reprieve when his sentence was reduced to a 20-year jail term by the High Court.

Justice Jesse Njagi ruled that the appellant was a young man at the time of the offence and does not deserve to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

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