2023 KCPE, KCSE Candidates Among 3 Robbers Lynched For Stealing Motorbike
Nothing much was established about the third deceased, except for the fact that they lived together.
Marvin Chege 
Three suspected robbers were on Tuesday, February 20 burnt to death by an angry mob at Manyatta in Kisumu after they were caught trying to steal a motorbike from a rider.
Witness accounts indicated that the trio included two who sat for the 2023 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) and the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) examinations.
Nothing much was established about the third deceased, except for the fact that they lived together.
A Kenyan Police Officer at a crime scene. /FILE
The suspects, some of whom residents said were positively identified, robbed the cyclist and his pillion of valuables before fleeing the scene as others drove away with the motorbike.
Boda boda operators in the area grouped on Tuesday morning and started a search for the suspected robbers.
The trio were then forcefully flushed out of their house within Manyatta Estate after the failed theft attempt and were beaten heavily by the mob who thereafter set their bodies ablaze.
The young man who sat for his KCPE begged to be spared, even promising to speak the truth, but his pleas fell on deaf ears.
Officers from Kasagam Police Station got wind of the incident and quickly rushed to the scene only to find the lifeless bodies of the trio burnt beyond recognition.
Bodies of the deceased were taken to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital mortuary awaiting autopsy.
Police launched investigations into the grisly murder of the three as they warned the public against taking the law into their own hands.
Mob justice, considered an extra-judicial intervention, violates Article 26(3) of the Constitution which forbids intentional deprivation of life, “except to the extent authorised by this Constitution or other written law”.
Notably, this is not the first time suspects involved in criminal activities have been lynched by an irate mob.
In June 2023, a 72-year-old woman was raped and killed in Kanyakine, Imenti South, Meru County and a young man suspected of the crime was subsequently lynched by members of the public.
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