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A Nairobi court has convicted seven members of a family for defrauding a city trader of Sh96 million in a fake land deal.

In her judgment Milimani Chief Magistrate Martha Mutuku, currently based in Mombasa, said the prosecution proved beyond doubt that the seven took the money pretending they would sell to the trader a 100-acre parcel of land in Kajiado 11 years ago.

She, however, ordered the convicts Francis Kinyanjui Kiruthi, Ngai Njeru, Irene Wangui Waweru, Charity Mumbu  Njue, Gerald Maina Guchu, Annah Wambui Waweru and Regina Njeri Kinyanujui to be remanded until tomorrow (Wednesday) for mitigation and sentencing.

“The prosecution led by senior State prosecutor Pamela Venda proved the case against each of the convicts beyond reasonable doubts,” she said.

 Mutuku ruled that Kinyanjui, Ngai and Irene defrauded George Gacheru Mungai, the proprietor of Thorn Hill Holdings Limited in March and April 2011.

They received the payments in two tranches of Sh9 million and Sh81 million respectively on March 9 and April 11, 2011 at the Prime Bank Limited, Riverside Branch in Nairobi.