Man serving 15-year sentence for defiling minor freed after reform, training

Judges observed that the term served by the "remorseful and reformed" appellant constituted sufficient punishment. [iStockphoto]

A man who was serving a 15-year sentence for engaging in an indecent act with a 16-year-old girl while he was 19 has been released by a Kisumu court.

Justices Joel Ngugi, Wanjiri Karanja and Francis Tuiyott at the Court of Appeal sitting in Kisumu said the man, SOO, had reformed and that he was never warned of the consequences of appealing against his initial sentence of 10 years that morphed into 15 years.