This archive report was first published on 30 August 2019.
On August 30, 2019, Trial Magistrate Francis Andayi delivered a verdict in the case of Guracha Haro and his son Warque Dejene, who were charged in connection with the 2014 Thika Road grenade attack that claimed the lives of three commuters.
The court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to prove that Haro and his son supported the terror attack, acquitting them of the charges.
However, Haro was found guilty of threatening a witness who testified against his son.
The prosecution had accused the two of placing explosives inside two commuter buses at Homeland and Roysambu, which detonated and killed three passengers.
The prosecution further claimed that Haro and his son received Ksh. 85,000 through an M-Pesa agent identified as Cool Breeze Kakuma, but the court noted that the money was sent via MPesa to the second accused and the mobile money agent was located in Mandera, with no link established to the attack in Nairobi.
The prosecution was also faulted for relying on circumstantial evidence, with the court ruling that 'Police said that they had information that the first accused person travelled to Somali but the intelligent information remained an allegation.'
Seventeen witnesses had been presented to testify against the two suspects.
