The High Court in Kenya has reduced the sentence of two suspects in the Garisaa terror attack by 15 years.
Hassan Edin Hassan and Mohamed Abdi Abikar who were to serve 41 years in jail each will now be in confinement for 26 years after two counts of their charges were quashed.
However, Justice Cecilia Githua upheld the rest of the judgement, ruling that the charge of conspiracy to commit a terror attack was not defective.
The two convicts Hassan Edin Hassan and Mohamed Abdi Abikar had appealed against a sentence where they were each to serve 41 years in prison and they succeeded in having their jail term reduced by 15 years.
The two were previously found guilty and convicted on 152 charges over the 2015 Garissa University attack that left 149 people dead.
Justice Cecilia Githua found that the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the two were members of the Alshabaab terror group, as they did not confess to it, therefore quashing counts 151 and 152 to which they had each been sentenced to serve 15 years.
However, the court upheld the rest of the sentence.
