The robberies were committed in Malindi and Kilifi towns between November 15, 2024, and March 26, 2025, with Otieno and an accomplice posing as officers conducting official police operations to gain access to residential homes.
A man who posed as a police officer to gain entry into homes before robbing and terrorising residents in Kilifi has been sentenced to 40 years in prison over a series of violent robberies involving valuables worth approximately Ksh.4 million.
Victor Otieno was sentenced by Kilifi Law Courts Principal Magistrate Ivy D. Wasike after being convicted of four counts of robbery with violence and one count of impersonating a police officer.
According to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), the robberies were committed in Malindi and Kilifi towns between November 15, 2024, and March 26, 2025, with Otieno and an accomplice posing as officers conducting official police operations to gain access to residential homes.
“The pair would knock on residential doors, gain entry under the pretence of conducting police operations, then overpower occupants, hold them hostage at gunpoint and ransack their homes,” ODPP stated.
Among the stolen items were mobile phones, laptops, television sets, gold chains, rings and PlayStations valued at about Ksh.4 million.
During the hearing, the prosecution presented nine witnesses who testified about the attacks, some of which took place…
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