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Two set free in friend's murder case

Entrance to the Bungoma law courts. [courtesy]

Two people accused of murdering their friend and dumping his body in a ditch after a chang’aa spree have been set free by the court.

Justice Stephen Riechi of Bungoma law courts set them to liberty, citing a Court of Appeal ruling implicating the State for faltering on the circumstantial evidence they relied upon to secure a conviction.

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