An Ex-Administration Police Officer Gregory Wabwire was, on Thursday, sentenced to three years in prison or a Ksh.100,000 fine for assaulting and inflicting serious injurious on a Nairobi hawker.
On January 31, the officer was found guilty of causing grievous harm on the hawker, Dominic Munywoki, after he repeatedly clobbered him on the head with a metal bar.
In his ruling, however, Makadara Law Court Senior Principal Magistrate Angelo Kithinji offered the convict an option of paying a fine of Ksh100,000.
The officer was arrested on grounds that he assaulted the hawker eight years ago seriously injuring his head and leaving him with a fractured leg. He reportedly asked the hawker to move a handcart but he refused claiming it did not belong to him.
Agitated, Wabwire took the hawker to Huruma estate Chief’s Camp where he finally assaulted him.
While issuing the judgment, Kithinji ruled that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt that the officer’s attack caused harm on the complainant.
This comes exactly a week after former Ruaraka OCS Nahashon Mutua was sentenced to death after he was charged with torturing a trader to death in the station’s police cells back in 2013.
