This archive report was first published on 14 September 2019.
On September 14, 2019, the gruesome murder of Dutch billionaire Tob Cohen took a surprising turn when his widow, Sarah Wairimu, accused the Director of Criminal Investigation, George Kinoti, of being involved in the crime.
Speaking through her lawyer, Philip Murgor, Sarah questioned how Kinoti knew the body was Cohen's before it was even retrieved from the underground tank in their Kitisuru home, Nairobi.
“Mr Kinoti knew even before it was opened that it was Tob Cohen, maybe you will ask him how he knew it. Wairimu has not been here in the last seventeen days and this place has been in the exclusive control of police,” Murgor said in a press conference.
According to Murgor, the investigating officers took the keys from the caretakers and ordered them not to step out, which they obeyed. He claimed that when the defence team tried to contact the caretakers, their phones were snatched away.
“They all knew that is what they wanted to dig. They dug it and removed the cover,” Murgor said, referring to the sewerage system that seemed to be freshly cemented to cover the manhole.
He insisted that his client, Sarah, was innocent until proved otherwise and questioned how the media and those who knew that the billionaire was already dead, found out.
