Miscellaneous Criminal Application E042 of 2022 - Ahomo v Republic (Miscellaneous Criminal Application E042 of 2022) [2022] KEHC 444 (KLR) (21 April 2022) (Ruling)

Ahomo v Republic (Miscellaneous Criminal Application E042 of 2022) [2022] KEHC 444 (KLR) (21 April 2022) (Ruling)

Neutral citation: [2022] KEHC 444 (KLR)

Republic of Kenya

In the High Court at Siaya

Miscellaneous Criminal Application E042 of 2022

RE Aburili, J

April 21, 2022

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            <div class="akn-div party-name">Maurice Opondo Ahomo</div>
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  <div class="akn-div header-note">(Being an Application arising from conviction and sentence of the Principal Magistrate’s Court at Bondo  in Criminal Case No. 36 of 2018)</div>

Ruling

1.The applicant Maurice Opondo Ahomo in his Notice of motion dated 4/4/2022 seeks for leave to appeal out of time from the conviction and sentence of a 15 years imprisonment imposed by Bondo PM’s court in Sexual Offence Case No. 36 of 2018. He claims that the conviction was on 16/10/2019 which is now 2½ years.

2.There are no reasons advanced for the inordinate delay as the purported ‘supporting affidavit’ is not sworn.

3.Accordingly, for unexplained laches, I find the application being an afterthought. The same is hereby dismissed.

4.File is closed.

DATED, SIGNED AND DELIVERED AT SIAYA THIS 21^ST DAY OF APRIL, 2022R.E. ABURILIJUDGE