Family of 27-year-old man slain by police officer Katitu asks court not to hang him

Crime buster Titus Ngamau alias Katitu in the dock at a Milimani court during submissions on what sentence should be handed to him. [Photo by George Njunge /Standard]

The mother of a 27-year-old man killed by a police officer in Githurai has requested the court not to sentence her son’s killer to death.

Purity Wanjiku told High Court judge James Wakiaga that she did not believe in the ‘eye-for-an-eye’ system of justice.