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A 40-year-old man in Kisii County, Kenya, was on Monday, February
29, sentenced to 200 years in prison for killing his 4 children.
Kisii resident judge, Joseph Karanja ruled that Misati will serve the
sentence concurrently for 50 years for each of the four counts of
murder he had been charged with.
According to
Standard Digital News, the case has been in court since 2013 when Misati
was charged with killing his four children, Toto, 3, Brian, 9, Ontoyo,
7, and Naomi Mogutu, 5.
Lukas Misati
committed the crime outside their rental houses in Egesa in Kitutu Chae
Central, on the night of November 10, 2012 following a feud with his
wife, Helen Kemunto (pictured)
In her
affidavit, Kemunto told the court that her husband came home on the
night of that fateful day, woke her up and said he wanted them to move.
She refused and Misati attacked her with a knife. Kemunto
escaped with injuries and managed to get treatment at a nearby
hospital.
"I managed to escape
and went to seek treatment at Kisii Level Five Hospital," the affdiavit
reads. But when she returned home, she found the children missing.
"I
thought they had shifted to another house. My husband called our
landlady and told her to inform me that i pick my children from a nearby
bush. However, one of the children lay dead at the doorstep while the
other three bodies were in the nearby nappier grass"
A
postmortem carried out on the bodies revealed that the deaths were
caused by strangulation. Misati was on the run for one year before he
was picked up by the police on November 21, 2013. After his sentencing,
Misati recounted that everything happened so fast to be able to tell
what happened that night.
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