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Court upgrades 25-year jail term to life sentence for school driver who defiled six-year-old


For nearly seven years, Vincent Korir, a school driver, has never rested, moving from one court to another, challenging a court decision that sent him to jail for 25 years.

Korir’s appeal on conviction and sentence was dismissed, and the sentence of 25 years was set aside and substituted with a life sentence.

Korir had been sentenced to serve 25 years in jail by a Kericho Court for defiling a 6-year-old in a judgment delivered March 13, 2020.

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