Two men found guilty of helping al-Shabaab terror to attack an upscale market in Nairobi 2013 were sentenced 18 years in prison with one of them getting additional sentence.
Al-Shabaab gunmen stormed Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall and killed 67 people after five days siege.
Mohamed Ahmed Abdi and Hussein Hassan Mustafa were sentenced for 18 years apiece on each of two charges, to be served concurrently.
Abdi who was said to have possessed materials promoting terrorism was given an additional 15-year jail sentence.
“This court has to pass a sentence … commensurate with the offence,” Chief Magistrate Francis Andayi said.
He said the seven years the men spent on remand would be deducted from their sentences.
A third suspect, Liban Abdullahi Omar, had been acquitted earlier this month while the two were found guilty.
Omar was reportedly kidnapped by a group of gunmen a day later after being released from custody and his location is still unknown.
The trio had been arrested in the weeks after the attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, which killed 67 people and left dozens of others injured.
A number of charges were brought against them including conspiracy to commit a terrorist act, aiding a terrorist group and being in the country illegally.
