Lawyer for human rights in Kenya named Willie Kimani. He worked with the Nairobi-based International Justice Mission (I.J.M.).
The late attorney also served on the boards of the Right Promotion Protection and the Law Society of Kenya.
In June 2016, a Kenyan court found three police officers and a citizen guilty of killing the lawyer and two other people.
The incident aroused nationwide indignation and brought attention to Kenyan Police’s suspected involvement in countless extrajudicial killings and missing persons cases.
After seven years, justice has finally been done. In today’s piece, let’s take a close look at the murder investigation of Willie Kimani.
Frederick Leliman and three police officers were found guilty in the Willie Kimani death case.
On June 23, 2016, three men—Josephat Mwenda, Joseph Muiruri, and human rights attorney Willie Kimani—went missing.
As part of a string of charges of police brutality and extrajudicial executions in Kenya, Frederick Leliman and three other people were found guilty of the murders in 2016.
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Joseph was a cab driver and Josephat was Willie’s customer. Later, it was discovered that they had been kidnapped by the four Kenyan Administration Police officers.
Authorities found their remains on July 1 of the same year, their arms tied behind their backs, in the Ol-Donyo Sabuk River. The bodies of Willie, Mwenda, and Muiruri also bore evidence of torture.
On July 18, 2016, four Administration Police officers—Leonard Mwangi, Silvia Wanjiku, Stephen Cheburet, and Fredrick Leliman—were accused following a three-week inquiry.
They were accused of Willie and two other men’s disappearance as well as three charges of murder. On June 24, 2021, the family of the late lawyer requested that the murder trial be expedited.
The four government employees were convicted guilty of murdering Kimani, his client, nd the taxi driver, one month later.
Fredrick Leliman Murderer Willie Kimani Receives a Death Sentence
The four defendants were facing penalties ranging from death row to 20 years in jail.
The first defendant, Fredrick Leliman, received a death sentence on 3 February 2023. Stephen Cheburet, the second defendant, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail.
The third and fourth defendants, Sylvia Wanjiku and Peter Ngugi received sentences of 24 and 20 years in prison, respectively.
At the Milimani Law Courts in Nairobi, Justice Jessie Lesiit ruled that the several sentences will run concurrently.
The four guys killed the human rights attorney, his client, and the taxi driver in “most foul” circumstances, according to the judgment.
LLesliealso instructed the managers of the prison to subtract from each convict’s sentence the time they had been incarcerated during the trial.
Willie Kimani has two children and was married.
Kimani Willie, the son of Paul Kinuthia and Elizabeth Wambui, was born on April 21, 1984.
Hanna Wanjiku and the late human rights attorney were married. Additionally, he was the delighted father of two kids.
Kimani While the ruling might not bring Kimani back, it had brought justice, according to Willie’s wife/widow. It will be “a source of solace/comfort to their hearts,” she continued.
Hanna said, “At least Kimani won’t be included in the list of those who endured torture and were killed without receiving justice.”
International Justice Mission, Willie’s employer, whose Kenyan director, Benson Shamala, said: “No one should suffer through what our friends went through, especially from the very persons tasked with protecting them.”
Kenya’s Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) has received more than 6,000 complaints since its creation ten years ago, although few officers have faced legal punishment.
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