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Former Kenyan policeman sentenced to death for murder

Former Kenyan policeman sentenced to death for murder

A Kenyan former policeman was sentenced to death on Friday for the murder of a human rights lawyer, his client and a taxi driver. Frederick Leliman and three others were convicted of carrying out the murders in 2016, in one of a series of cases of alleged police brutality and extrajudicial killings in Kenya. Lawyer Willie Kimani was representing a motorcycle taxi operator who was suing Leliman for shooting him at a traffic roadblock. Leliman later started threatening and intimidating the man. The bodies of Kimani, his client Josephat Mwendwa and taxi driver...

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