A teacher in Wajir has received a 12-year sentence for stabbing to death a teenage girl in a case that took eight years to solve.
Genye Noor Ahmed, a 16-year-old primary school pupil, was murdered in Kotulo Sub Location of Tarbaj Sub County within Wajir County on May 12, 2016.
Noor Abdi Ahmed, a teacher at Duksi, a traditional Islamic school, was charged with first-degree intentional homicide before Justice John Onyiego of the High Court at Garissa, who handed him the jail term after finding him guilty of committing the crime.
“I find that the prosecution has proved the case of murder against the accused person, and I, therefore, find him guilty as charged and convict him accordingly,” Justice Onyiego said.
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During the trial, the court heard that Genye had two stab wounds on the side of her chest and a deep cut on her neck and that her death was a result of multiple injuries due to penetrating trauma.
Khadija Abdi, one of the nine witnesses who testified against Mr Noor, said she found the dead body close to a Safaricom booster in a nearby grazeland while she was looking for her camel on that fateful day. “The body was lying facing down, and I could not recognize the person,” she said.
Before the sentencing, shockingly, the court also heard that the jailed teacher was the father of the deceased and that he had been making romantic advances to her. On the day he stabbed her, he attempted to rape her, but the teenager was strong enough. Seeing that she would break away, she killed her.
Despite incriminating DNA tests that linked him with the murder, Mr Noor had pleaded not guilty but had been arrested and remanded in custody, where he has been for the last three years and seven months.
After he was handed down the sentence, he pleaded for leniency on the grounds that he was a family man and a widower, and the judge showed compassion for him and gave a directive that he serve 12 years less the time he has been in custody.
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