A woman whose plot to wipe out her family backfired will now have to spend 15 years in jail, mourning the death of her 12-year-old son.
Halima Bwakali from Kakamega is reported to have given the boy a drink which was laced with a pesticide.
The court was told that Bwakali had attempted to commit suicide by swallowing the pesticide after she had forced her two children to drink the poisonous concoction.
The woman and daughter survived after they were rushed to hospital for treatment but her son did not make it.
For attempting suicide, Bwakali was already facing a seven year sentence.
In addition to this, Kakamega High Court Judge Jesse Njagi has now sentenced her to 15 years after he found her guilty of killing her son the on December 23, 2018.
“The maximum sentence for murder is death. I, however, do not think that the death sentence is warranted in this case,” Justice Njagi ruled.