This archive report was first published on 8 October 2019.
On October 8, 2019, Kenya Insights published a detailed witness confession of how Lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda, and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri were suffocated to death by police officers using polythene bags.
Today, the High Court is set to hear more evidence in the trial of four police officers and their informer charged with the 2016 cold-blooded murder.
A new witness, identified as number 40, is expected to introduce new evidence in the form of a recorded video confession.
This comes after the testimony of Peter Ngugi, the fifth accused person in the case, was read out in an open court with a written detailed account of how the three victims were trailed, abducted, and finally murdered in cold blood.
Four police officers, Fredrick Leliman, Stephen Cheburet, Sylvia Wanjiku, and Leonard Mwangi, are charged alongside police informer Peter Ngugi with the murder of the three victims.
The 2016 murders shocked the nation and exposed the dark side of the Kenyan Police forces, whose management speaks against extrajudicial executions.
On Monday, Directorate of Criminal Investigations Geoffrey Kinyua read the confession of Ngugi, the fifth accused person in the case, outlining how the three were trailed, arrested, and eventually killed.
