Kenyan law was changed three times to suit this man

Chief Justice James Wick and lady Wicks arrive at Uhuru Park for Kenyatta day celebrations,1974 [Photo: File]

Chief Justice Kenneth O'Connor, the fifth CJ in 1954, is best remembered for sentencing freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi to death at the height of the Mau Mau insurgency in 1957!

Sir James Ainley, the seventh CJ, was Kenya's first after independence in 1963, and is remembered for handling Kenya's first political assassination when Pio Gama Pinto was killed in Parklands Nairobi in 1964. Ainley handed Kisilu Mutua a death sentence later commuted to life. Kisilu was released 35 years later after investigative journalist Kamau Ngotho exposed how Kisilu was fixed in high voltage coverup.