The Daily Nation reported Judge Kanyi Kimondo sentenced Duncan Livingstone Kimathi to death for the 2012 murder of Sarah Akello Aruwa.

Thursday's death sentence is the judgment those three outlets reported. The caption spelling and the body spelling are not the same name. Kiamako and Ngewa are not the same place name. The second accused, whom the Nation named, was not in court. The sentence does not cover her.

The Daily Nation reported Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, in a story by Hilary Kimuyu, that High Court Judge Kanyi Kimondo sentenced Duncan Livingstone Kimathi, 37, to death after finding him guilty of murdering Sarah Akello Aruwa, a final-year International Relations student, in June 2012. The caption on the Nation's photograph spelled the name Dancun Livingstone Kimanthi and said he was at Milimani Law Courts, where he was charged with murdering her in 2012. Duncan and Dancun are not the same spelling. Kimathi and Kimanthi are not the same spelling. The Star, in a story by Christabel Adhiambo dated 29 October 2026 at 12:13, reported Justice Kanyi Kimondo sentenced Duncan Livingstone Kimathi, 37, after finding him guilty of murdering Sarah Akello Aruwa between June 30 and July 1, 2012, in Kiamako, Githunguri, Kiambu County. That 12:13 does not print a time zone. Citizen Digital, in a story by Mary Gathu timestamped October 29, 2026, at 02:47 EAT, used the same name, the same age, the same judge's title, and the same June 30 to July 1 dates in Kiamako. High Court Judge, in the Nation's lede, and Justice, in The Star and Citizen Digital, are not the same title. The Nation's lede said June 2012. The Star and Citizen Digital printed the two dates. A month and a two-day span are not the same. The Nation did not print a clock time. 02:47 EAT and 12:13 are not the same hour.

The Nation reported the prosecution, through Millicent Kigira, called 17 witnesses, and that the case centered on the disappearance, ransom demands, and the discovery of the body in Ngewa, Githunguri, Kiambu County. A caption on a second Nation photograph, of Winnie Wairimu Kariuki and Dancun Livingstone Kimathi, said they were at Milimani in February 2014 when they were charged with murdering Sarah Akello Aruwa between June 30, 2012, and July 1, 2012, at Kiamiako Area, Githunguri. That caption spells Kimathi. The lead caption spells Kimanthi. Kiamako, Kiamiako, and Ngewa are not the same place name. The Star and Citizen Digital put the murder in Kiamako and did not print Ngewa. The Nation quoted Kimondo: he was "fully satisfied that the accused was positively identified as the person who lured and abducted the deceased on 30/6/2012, demanded a ransom, issued threats to kill the deceased in default of payment and that he, together with other persons not before the court, strangled the deceased to death." The Star and Citizen Digital did not print that quotation. They reported the judge found malice aforethought and that she had been deliberately lured into a trap. The Nation also quoted the judge that the "entire corpus of direct, circumstantial, electronic and documentary evidence points irresistibly to his guilt," and reported the alibi was inconsistent with the prosecution evidence. The Nation reported the court convicted him under Section 203 as read with Section 204 of the Penal Code. The Star printed those sections. Citizen Digital did not.

The Nation reported she disappeared on June 30, 2012, after telling her friend, Ivy Gathu, that she was going to meet a man she had previously encountered at the university library, and that her notebook named a man identified as Daniel Mureithi and a mobile number that was not registered. The Nation reported the judge found that name was part of a plan to conceal the identity of the person who had arranged to meet her. The Star reported she told a friend she was going to meet a man she had encountered at a university library, that the notebook identified Daniel Muriithi, and that the court established Kimathi did not know Muriithi and that the identity had been used as part of a plan to lure her. Citizen Digital reported she told a friend she was going to link up with a man, spelled the notebook name Daniel Muriithi, and reported Muriithi was not familiar to Kimathi and that the identity had been used as part of a plan to lure the deceased. Ivy Gathu is the Nation's name. A friend, with no name, is The Star's and Citizen Digital's. Meet and link up are not the same verb. Mureithi and Muriithi are not the same spelling. Did not know and not familiar are not the same words. A plan to conceal, in the Nation, and a plan to lure, in The Star and Citizen Digital, are not the same purpose. The Nation reported he denied he had been a student at USIU-Africa, and that the judge found he had access to the campus and an opportunity to lure her. The Star called him a fellow university student and did not print the letters USIU. Citizen Digital called him a former United States International University-Africa student. A denial that he was a student, and the description former student, are not the same account. The Nation reported her mother, Hellen Atieno Aruwa, testified that a man using her daughter's phone demanded Sh100,000 and threatened to kill her, that further demands came the next day when she was with a relative, Jim Onyango, and that the family negotiated the ransom down to Sh70,000. The Star and Citizen Digital named Hellen Atieno Aruwa, printed the negotiation down to 70,000, and reported she then went to Kasarani Police Station. They did not print Jim Onyango. The Nation did not print Kasarani. The Star printed Sh100,000 and Sh70,000. Citizen Digital printed Ksh.100,000 and Ksh.70,000. Sh and Ksh. are not the same abbreviation. All three reported the boyfriend's account that a man answered her phone and demanded 100,000 be sent to her mobile money account.

The Nation reported a postmortem found a laceration at the back of her head and bruises on her neck, and that she died from neck compression through manual strangulation. The Star used that same cause-of-death wording. Citizen Digital reported she suffered a laceration and bruises and died from manual strangulation. Sustained, in the Nation and The Star, and suffered, in Citizen Digital, are not the same verb. Neck compression is in the Nation and The Star and not in Citizen Digital's cause line. The Nation reported investigators recovered her bra, panties, and a blood-stained top from a house in Savannah where Kimathi's girlfriend, Winnie Wairimu Kariuki, lived, and that Kariuki, the second accused, absconded after bail. The Star reported undergarments and a blood-stained top from a house in Savannah where his girlfriend lived, did not print the girlfriend's name, and reported the second accused absconded. Citizen Digital reported undergarments and a blood-stained top from a house where his girlfriend, Wairimu, lived, and in the next sentence reported that another accused person fled after bail. Winnie Wairimu Kariuki and Wairimu are not the same fullness of name. A named second accused and another accused person, in a following sentence, are not the same identification. Bra and panties, and undergarments, are not the same words. The Nation reported that on cross-examination he admitted a Makadara court had convicted him of abducting a girl in 2012. The Star and Citizen Digital did not print that admission. The girl is not named here. A caption on a Nation photograph of Aruwa spelled the name Serah and said the body was found in a thicket five days later. The story's text spelled Sarah and said the body was discovered days after she disappeared. Serah and Sarah are not the same spelling. Five days and days are not the same count. That photograph is not used here. The Nation reported the search for the co-accused continues. Thursday's death sentence is the judgment on Kimathi. It is not a sentence on the absent co-accused. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.