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Court overturns life sentence for sodomy convict

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Justice Nixon Sifuna. [File, Standard]

High Court has overturned a life sentence handed to a convict who sodomised a 55-year-old man, terming it too excessive.

Instead, Justice Nixon Sifuna ordered that Joseph Kimani Waithera should serve ten years behind bars.

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