While delivering the sentencing on Tuesday, December 17, 2024, Eldoret High Court Judge Justice Reuben Nyakundi said Biwott expressed cruelty for shooting her spouse 12 times.

The judge said there was no evidence that the accused person was in self-defense since nothing proved that her spouse had provoked her.

Nyakundi said the police officer abused her firearm, knowing fully well that it was not in order as per the law.
He said her act has tormented the deceased’s family, especially his aging mother who is now depressed and psychologically disturbed.

"Lilian, you had all what it takes to avoid the death of your husband, father to your children who are now orphaned but you choose to travel the wrong route," said the judge.

He said cases of gender based violence and femicide have been on the rise in the country and thereby there is need for harsher punishment. "The premeditated way that the act was committed was gruesome" noted Nyakundi.

Police Constable Lilian Biwott during a past court arraignment for the murder of her husband.