Nakuru — The High Court in Eldoret has sentenced self-confessed serial killer, Evans Wanjala to life imprisonment for the murder of a 10-year-old girl.

Wanjala who is linked to the killing of five other minors, all girls was convicted of defiling and killing Stacy Achieng at Moi's Bridge area of Uasin Gishu County six year ago.

He is facing four other murder charges as per his confessions.

Justice Reuben Nyakundi said the prosecution adduced sufficient evidence to prove that Wanjala plotted and executed the murder.

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Nyakundi noted that even after defiling the child, Wanjala could have allowed the minor a chance to live but he chose to kill her by strangulation.

"You cut short the life of an innocent young girl and did it brutally, therefore you deserve a life imprisonment," the judge told Wanjala.

A medical report showed that the girl was seriously injured and killed before her little body was placed in a bag and dumped in the forest.

He said DNA test on blood samples collected from the girl's T-Shirt and inner garments matched with those taken from accused.

Immediately after his arrest for defiling and killing Achieng, Wanjala made a chilling confession of several other murders and even took detectives to different locations where he purportedly committed the offences.

He narrated in detail how he committed the murders and later filed an application for pre-bargaining plea.

However, the matter had to go into full trial after Achieng's family objected to the application and asked the court to deal with the case in accordance to the law.

Bodies of the four other children were also exhumed from the shallow graves in different places in Moi's Bridge.

The four other victims are Linda Cherono, 13, Mary Elusa, 14, Grace Njeri, 12 and Lucy Wanjiru.