By Editorial
A Kenyan court has dismissed an appeal by two men who are serving long sentences for their role in the 2015 Garissa University College attack, which left 148 people dead.
Judge Cecilia Githua said Hassan Edin Hassan and Mohammed Abdi Abikar would spend 41 years in jail as their appeal had not shown that the magistrates’ court had erred in giving out the long sentences.
The two Kenyans were convicted in 2019, while Rashid Mberesero, a Tanzanian national, received a life sentence before taking his own life in 2020.
They were all found guilty of conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack and of belonging to the al-Qaeda linked group, al-Shabab, but they appealed against the magistrates’ court ruling. END.
