Nairobi, March 13 -- Joseph Kuria Irungu, 33, is due in court this morning to be sentenced for the murder of businesswoman Monica Nyawira Kimani.

Irungu was due to be sentenced last week, but his lawyers asked High Court Judge Grace Nzioka to grant him more time to file his responses to a pre-sentence report and the prosecution's submissions.

In her submissions, Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Gikui Gichuhi urged the court to sentence Irungu to death, saying the prosecution had shown that he planned the murder; that there was no provocation from Monica and that he also tried to conceal the crime.

Ms Gichuhi urged the court to find that there were aggravating circumstances for Irungu to be sentenced to death.

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