A Kenyan court is due to sentence three former policemen and a civilian over the 2016 killing of prominent human rights lawyer Willie Kimani.
The four, Fredrick Leliman, Stephen Cheburet, Sylvia Wanjiku and Peter Ngugi, were last year found guilty of the murder of Mr Kimani, his client Josephat Mwendwa and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri.
The wife of the late lawyer and his family have already arrived at the packed courthouse in the capital, Nairobi.
The bodies of Mr Kimani and the two others were found after they had been dumped in a river on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi.
The lawyer was defending Mr Mwendwa, a motorbike taxi driver who had accused Mr Leliman – one of the three officers found guilty – of shooting him for no reason at a traffic stop in 2015.
Mr Kimani, Mr Mwendwa and Mr Muiruri were last seen on 23 June 2016 at a police station.
Their mutilated bodies were recovered two weeks later in a river almost 100km (62 miles) from the city.
The sentencing comes at a time when Kenya’s police service is under yet more scrutiny over extrajudicial killings and abductions.
President William Ruto has already disbanded several special units accused of murder and kidnappings of civilians
