This archive report was first published on 10 July 2020.
On July 10, 2020, a Nairobi court freed Vigilance Shighi, 29, on a Sh1 million bond in connection with the murder of her lover, aeronautical engineer Edward Okello.
Shighi was charged with Okello's murder on May 2 after he succumbed to injuries sustained during a fight at their rented house in Umoja, Nairobi.
Okello had three stab wounds on the chest and abdomen inflicted with a knife and was rushed to Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital in Kayole, where he died.
Shighi was arrested immediately after the incident and had been in police custody since. She denied committing the murder on June 9.
Shighi's lawyers, Mwangi Kihira and Brian Ongánya, applied for bail and bond on June 24, arguing that she had no prospects of jumping bail and would attend court when required.
She dismissed the Directorate of Criminal Investigations' claims that she might interfere with prosecution witnesses, stating, 'The identity of the prosecution witnesses has not been disclosed to me and as such the argument that I will interfere with witnesses does not hold water.'
Shighi was released on a Sh1 million bond with a surety of similar amount and an alternative cash bail of Sh500,000 by Justice Luka Kimaru.
