Judge throws out son and father's land row case amid death threats

Court gavel. [Courtesy]

Imagine presiding over a case where the verdict is subject to a threat that someone might die if the outcome is not in a party’s favour.

This is the predicament faced by Environment and Land Court Justice Oguttu Mboya when he was determining a case between a self-proclaimed police officer, Abdi Guyo Jattani, and his father, Guyo Jattani, over the ownership of a plot in Moyale.