This archive report was first published on 25 September 2019.
On September 25, 2019, Sarah Wairimu's words at the burial of her murdered husband, Tob Cohen, sent a chilling message to his killers: 'Even as we stand here, many of the ones responsible for Tob's death here in sheepskin, believe you me, your days are also numbered.'
Tob Cohen was brutally killed and his body dumped in a septic tank in the backyard of his house in Kitisuru, Nairobi. Medical scans revealed that his head was smashed in, and his limbs were broken, indicating that he was tortured.
DCI George Kinoti described the murder as 'gruesome.' Cohen was buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Nairobi, with close family and friends in attendance.
His widow, Sarah Wairimu, who is incarcerated in connection with the murder at Langata Women's Prison, was at the funeral after a court order. She accused the killers of pretending to be family, calling them 'wolves in sheepskin.'
She vowed to fight back, saying, 'Those responsible for Tob's death (are here) yet pretending to be sheep and purporting to be family. I will fight back.'
She also paid tribute to her husband, saying, 'One thing I know about my husband is that he was a real Simba. A lion, he was not scared of anybody. One thing Tob taught me is not to take no for an answer. So even in this, I'm going to fight.'
