(ANSA) Rome, November 6- A court in Nairobi Thursday
sentenced to death five men including a Roman Catholic priest
for the 2005 murder of the Italian apostolic vicar of Isiolo,
Monsignor Luigi Locati, the Misna and AFP agencies report.
The convicted men were identified as Father Guyo Waqo
Malley, defined by the judge the "planner" of the murder, and
four Muslims - Mohammed Molu Bagajo, Adan Ibrahim Mohammed,
Mahati Ali Halake and Diqa Wario Mohammed.
Originally from Vercelli, Monsignor Locati was assassinated
July 14, 2005.
He arrived in Kenya at the start of the 1960s.
The death sentence for murder is envisaged by the Kenyan
criminal code though no execution has been carried out in Kenya
since 1987.
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