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The High Court has found guilty a student of Moi Girls’ High School of ten counts of manslaughter.
She was convicted for the horrific inferno where 10 pupils lost their lives a week after reporting to School in 2017.
Justice Stella Mutuku convicted the student accused of having started the deadly inferno that killed nine students at Moi Girls School, Nairobi, in 2017.
“I find T. W. G guilty of the unlawful act of omission of causing the deaths of the ten victims enumerated in counts 1 to 10. I enter a conviction against her for each of the ten counts of Manslaughter accordingly,” justice Mutuku ordered.
In her judgement, the judge convicted the student of the lesser charge of Manslaughter after finding her not guilty in ten counts of murder. “It is therefore the finding of this court that the Prosecution having failed to prove the element of malice aforethought in respect of this case, this court is not able to find the subject guilty of the offence of murder,” ruled justice Mutuku.
While convicting the former Form One student, the judge noted that the student did not start the fire with the aim of causing killing to her fellow schoolmates.
“To me, it seems like an action born of desperate attempt to make her be transferred from this school by all means,” the justice Mutuku noted. “Her aim may have been to just start the fire and burn the building without hurting anyone but it was ill-intention given that the building had two floors, ground and first. There was going to be casualties as a result of the fire.”
The student was charged with ten counts of murder after she was found culpable for having planned the tragic fire that caused the death of nine Form 1 girls.
The then Form One student is said to have committed the offence when she was 14-years_old. In the case, the prosecution had called 42 witnesses to prove the criminal charges against the student.
It was the prosecution case that on the night of September 1 and 2, 2017, the student and her friends prayed before going to bed and asked God for forgiveness for what she was about to do that night.
The court will sentence her on January 4, 2022.
