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Nairobi \u2014 The Supreme Court has upheld mandatory minimum sentences under Sexual Offences Act, rejecting the Court of Appeal’s view that it impedes judicial discretion.<\/em><\/p>\n This is in a case where the appellate court had earlier scaled down the sentence for Joshua Gichuki Mwangi, man accused of defiling a 15 year old minor.<\/p>\n In its ruling, the apex court faulted the decision by the Court of Appeal and ordered Mwangi to serve the remainder of his prison sentence.<\/p>\n A five judge bench at the apex court…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 The Supreme Court has upheld mandatory minimum sentences under Sexual Offences Act, rejecting the Court of Appeal’s view that it impedes judicial discretion. This is in a case where the appellate court had earlier scaled down the sentence for Joshua Gichuki Mwangi, man accused of defiling a 15 year old minor. In its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,6185,4688,430,12605,257,8612,7355,9796,254,9498,8170],"class_list":["post-176504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-mandatory","tag-news","tag-offences","tag-sentence","tag-sexual","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supreme","tag-upholds"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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