A Mombasa court has found two men who sexually assaulted a 27-year-old woman before tying her to a railway track guilty of attempted murder and gang rape.
The woman’s lower limbs were amputated after a cargo train crushed them in the February 3, 2017 ordeal.
Steven Otieno Okalu and Stephen Mzee Thomas alias Kerenje were convicted by Mombasa Resident Magistrate Vincent Adet, who ruled that the suspects’ intention was to have the woman killed by the train.
He added that the suspects were properly identified by the victim,who knew them by name hence no reasontl to doubt.
The woman had told court through State Counsel Hillary Isiaho that she was able to identify the suspects because of the security lights that illuminated the area.
“By putting her on the railway track and tying her there such that she was unable to move, the suspect’s intention was to have her crushed to death.” the magistrate said.
Medical evidence tabled in court showed that the woman’s muscles on both legs were mangled and her bones crushed and that she bled profusely. The court also found that the victim was sexually assaulted.
“I have no reason to doubt the evidence tabled by the prosecution’s witnesses. I do hereby find that the prosecution has proved its case on both counts.”
“Thesuspects are hereby convicted for the offences of attempted murder and gang rape,” said the magistrate.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 5 2022.
