This archive report was first published on 26 September 2019.
Philip Murgor, a lawyer, has accused former Gatundu North Member of Parliament Patrick Muiruri of threatening and insulting him at the burial of Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen on September 24, 2019.
Murgor claims that Muiruri confronted him and uttered an unprintable insult before shouting: “I will deal with you outside.”
The altercation occurred after Murgor asked Muiruri’s daughter to leave the Jewish cemetery where Cohen was being buried, as the event was restricted to family members only.
“At the funeral of the late Tob Cohen, I was confronted by one Patrick Muiruri, a Kiambu politician who menacingly shouted at me not to pick on his daughter, but on him if I wanted a confrontation,” Murgor says in a letter dated September 25, 2019.
Murgor claims that the said outburst by the Kiambu politician is an attempt to intimidate him as the lawyer for Sarah Wairimu Cohen, who is the key suspect in the murder of her late husband.
“Given the unexplained role, interest and positions taken by Mr. Muiruri in the case facing my client Sarah Cohen, I take this outburst as a threat in an attempt to intimidate me as an advocate for Mrs Cohen,” Murgor wrote.
