This archive report was first published on 13 July 2020.
Ms Vigilance Shighi, 29, a resident of Umoja, Nairobi, has been released on Sh1 million bond with two sureties of the same amount, after being accused of murdering her boyfriend, Edward Budoyi Okello, an aeronautical engineer at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA).
According to police reports, Ms Shighi stabbed Mr Okello, 33, in the chest and abdomen several times using a knife after a domestic squabble on May 9 at Amani Court in Umoja II Estate.
Mr Okello died at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital in Kayole where he was taken after the incident.
Ms Shighi, who has denied the charge, was given the alternative of Sh500,000 cash bail by Milimani Judge Luka Kimaru, who ruled that there were no compelling reasons to deny her bail.
"The circumstance under which the crime is said to have occurred, in the absence of other evidence, cannot form a basis for this court to deny the accused the constitutionally guaranteed right to be released on bail pending trial," Mr Kimaru said.
He added that the prosecution's fears can be addressed by the court's imposition of conditions that will ensure her presence during the trial.
