The High Court of Kibera (Nairobi) on April 8th, 2025, dismissed the appeal of Lawrence Kinoti who, the previous November, had been sentenced to life imprisonment with a second prison warder, Paul Muranu Mwangi. Judge Diana Kavedza-Mochache found “the appeal to be lacking in merit and is dismissed in its entirety”. Kinoti and Mwangi had been arrested at the Rio Hotel in Nairobi West on August 11th, 2015 after KWS investigators had received intelligence that the two and one other were selling ivory. A third prison warder, Kipkoech Cheruiyot escaped but was arrested a few days later. KWS recovered 5 pieces of ivory weighing 5 kg. The prosecution, that took 7 1/2 years to hear six witnesses, had the hallmarks of a compromised case based on duration alone. When it took nine sittings over seven months for Principal Magistrate M. Maroro to deliver her verdict, the possibility of compromise appeared increased.