Hand crime suspects over to police officers instead of lynching them

Over 300 officers have been charged with unlawful use of force in the past six years. [iStockphoto]

Judge Roselyn Aburuli convicted two people for the lynching of a suspected mobile phone thief in Siaya County this week. The judge admonished the accused for not apprehending the suspect and handing him over to the police as required by law.

During the trial, the person whose phone was stolen and led to the lynching testified that the deceased had been brought to their homestead before being assaulted. In the postmortem report, it was confirmed that blunt force trauma caused the deceased's death.