This archive report was first published on 17 September 2019.
On September 17, 2019, detectives investigating the murder of slain Dutch businessman Tob Cohen were closing in on three suspects believed to have tortured him to death.
The suspects, whose identities police had yet to reveal, were suspected of being at Cohen's residence in Kitisuru where the gruesome murder took place.
According to reports, the suspects had traveled from Nakuru and headed straight to Kitisuru on the day Cohen was murdered.
They were also suspected of having close links with Peter Karanja, former husband to Gilgil MP Martha Wangari, who was in police custody over the murder.
Police had traced Karanja's phone signal to the crime scene before it went off and later re-emerged in Gilgil, leading to his arrest on Tuesday last week.
Karanja's lawyers, however, claimed that their client was illegally detained and that his basic human rights were violated.
'Our client was blindfolded, his hands handcuffed at his back, and he was bundled into the boot of a vehicle and his car driven by other people other than himself against all the rights of an arrested person,' said Ham Lagat, one of Karanja's lawyers.
They were set to file an application in court to compel the DCI to produce Karanja in court.
