Two cleared of killing police officers in election violence

Two men on death row for the murder of two policemen during the post-election violence have had their conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal. Appellate judges Martha Koome, Erastus Githinji and Alnashir Visram yesterday ordered the release of Robert Kipng'etich and Kirkland Kipng'eno who had been sentenced to die for killing of the police officers in Bureti constituency. The appellate judges found that trial judge Mary Ang'awa had failed to consider that was no common intention between the two to commit the murders and as such the charges against them could not be proved...