Alberto Mwanzia was convicted on his own plea of guilty and confessed before a court that he used a wheel spanner to attack his victim.
The drama occurred after a confrontation in Zimmerman Estate, when he packed his car at the entrance of butchery.
Mwanzia ,26, stalled his car for almost six hours blocking clients from accessing the butchery belonging to Paul Njeri on 14 th of August.
Paul had been trying to contact the taxi driver since 8.00 am. The driver ignored repeated requests to move his car and eventually switched off his phone until midday when he returned.
Mwanzia found all his car tyres flattened and stormed into the butchery. He took about 30kgs of meat from the counter and threw them to the ground. The meat valued at ks 13,000 was wasted as no clients
could buy.
He hysterically attacked Paul causing him to sustain injuries on the head, left shoulder and the back, contrary to section 251 of the penal code.
Mwanzia pleaded guilty to charges of assault, causing actual bodily harm before a Makadara court. After the charges were read aloud in court he made no response to his chance of mitigation.
Magistrate Esther Nyongesa warned him that the offense was a seven year sentence. However, he showed no signs of remorse and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment without an option of a fine.
The court heard that he was a first time offender with no past records of crime . He remains in custody since his arrest over the weekend as an example to future offenders.
Most people tend to think of jail as a place that criminals are put so that society as a whole will be safe. We want to think that every person who is put in the county jail is guilty of some kind of crime.
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