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Theft suspect healing gunshot wound pleads guilty, jailed

Silus Njeru Nthenge at the Embu Court where he was imprisoned for theft. [Joseph Muchiri/Standard]

A suspected thief who sustained a gunshot wound after he and his accomplices accosted police with machetes has been imprisoned.

Silas Njeru Nthenge pleaded guilty to being found in possession of a stolen electric timber sawing machine worth Sh100,000 at Shauri Slums in Embu town on June 23 this year with others not before court.

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