For nearly seven years, Vincent Korir, a school driver, has never rested, moving from one court to another, challenging a court decision that sent him to jail for 25 years.

Korir's appeal on conviction and sentence was dismissed, and the sentence of 25 years was set aside and substituted with a life sentence.Korir had been sentenced to serve 25 years in jail by a Kericho Court for defiling a 6-year-old in a judgment delivered March 13, 2020.

He allegedly committed the offense on March 24, 2018, in Bureti Sub-County, Kericho County. "The appellant understood the consequences of the warning and proceeded to prosecute his appeal.

Having established that the appeal on conviction was unmerited, and that conviction is hereby affirmed, this Court will enhance the sentence.