{"id":52314,"date":"2024-12-18T07:20:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenyan-police-officer-handed-35-year-jail-term-for-shooting-husband-12-times\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T07:20:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:20:37","slug":"kenyan-police-officer-handed-35-year-jail-term-for-shooting-husband-12-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenyan-police-officer-handed-35-year-jail-term-for-shooting-husband-12-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Police officer handed 35-year jail term for shooting husband 12 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While delivering the sentencing on Tuesday, December 17, 2024, Eldoret High Court Judge Justice Reuben Nyakundi said Biwott expressed cruelty for shooting her spouse 12 times.<\/p>\n<p>The judge said there was no evidence that the accused person was in self-defense since nothing proved that her spouse had provoked her.<\/p>\n<p>Nyakundi said the police officer abused her firearm, knowing fully well that it was not in order as per the law.<br \/>\nHe said her act has tormented the deceased&#8217;s family, especially his aging mother who is now depressed and psychologically disturbed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lilian, you had all what it takes to avoid the death of your husband, father to your children who are now orphaned but you choose to travel the wrong route,&#8221; said the judge.<\/p>\n<p>He said cases of gender based violence and femicide have been on the rise in the country and thereby there is need for harsher punishment. &#8220;The premeditated way that the act was committed was gruesome&#8221; noted Nyakundi.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-78988 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/webp\/pic_1-2.webp\" alt=\"Police Constable Lilian Biwott during a past court arraignment for the murder of her husband. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenyan Police Constable Lilian Biwott has been sentenced to 35 years in jail for killing her spouse Victor Kipchumba in Eldoret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000078987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000078987,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-158.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-158.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-158.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-158.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-158.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-158.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000078987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52314"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52314"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}