Kamau Chege had been convicted of defiling his two daughters on February 10, 2012 at Gitugu village in Kangema, Murang’a County and was serving his sentence at Kamiti Maximum Prison.
The girls were aged 16 and 17 years and were in standard 6 and 7.
Chege had filed an appeal seeking to have the life imprisonment reduced and had already served 5 years of his sentence.
While reading the judgment, Judge Hatari Waweru on Friday said the prisoner’s age was not considered when he was handed the life imprisonment sentence.
Waweru said the Kangema magistrate’s court gave the sentence on September 13, 2012 based on his two counts of defilement.
He added that the lower court was guided by the corroborative evidence provided by the prosecution including a medical report that confirmed that the two minors had been defiled.
Hatari also noted that the life sentence is the highest sentence for the offence and is not a mandatory sentence.
The judge in his judgement said the elderly convict would serve a 10 year sentence for each of the two charges and that the two sentences will run concurrently.
“The two sentences will be dated from the day he was sentenced by the lower court,” he added.
The suspect’s wife passed away years ago before the elderly man started defiling his two daughters repeatedly.
The convict was arrested after a neighbor reported the matter to the local chief and the local children department’s office.
-ALICE WAITHERA