Hours after the court ruled on the murder of Lawyer Willie Kimani, his parents came out to somewhat express their thoughts on the matter.
Willie's father Paul Kinuthia 84 and his wife Elizabeth Wambui regretted that despite the court handing one of the key masterminds a death sentence, that cannot happen now.
"Ingekua kama ni wakati kulikua na hukumu ya kunyongwa wangenyongwa," Kinuthia said.
This loosely translates to "If it was during the time when people were strangled then that could have been done".
Wambui on her part said she has been waiting for the ruling for the past seven years, anxiously.
"Nimengoja hii siku kwa sababu ni mwaka ya saba na naskia uchungu sana kwa kitu walifanyia huyo mtoto, sasa wamefungwa maisha" she said.
Willie's wife Hannah Kimani said they had lost hope and thought it would not happen, but as a family, they really thank God because he is a God of justice.
“I believed that we were going to get justice and I had no doubt that they had committed the crime,” she said.
Kimani was abducted as he left the Mavoko law courts in June 2016 alongside his client Josephat Mwenda and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri.
They were all killed and their bodies dumped into River Ol Donyo Sabuk.
Police officers Fredrick Leliman, Stephen Cheburet, Sylvia Wanjiku and their informer Peter Ngugi were found guilty of the murder of the three victims.
On Friday, Justice Jessie Lessit sentenced Leliman to death and handed Cheburet and Wanjiku 30 and 24 years in jail respectively.
Their informer Ngugi was sentenced to 20 years in prison which is the lowest sentence among all the four of them.