This archive report was first published on 14 November 2019.
Published on November 14, 2019
Sarah Wairimu, the wife of the late Tob Cohen, has filed an application in court seeking permission to access her palatial home in Nairobi's Kitisuru area.
The application, filed on Wednesday, seeks orders granting Wairimu access to the residence to pick her personal belongings, including her dogs Major and Snow, a Labrador/Rottweiler breed and a Doberman breed respectively.
Among the items she wants to take from the house are clothes, shoes, handbags, grooming tools, her music collection, golfing equipment, a generator, foodstuff, and beverages of a perishable nature, including alcoholic and soft drinks stored in the kitchen and her office.
Wairimu also wants to pick electronics, books, personal photographs, pictures, artwork, and files from the house.
She further seeks the court's order to compel the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to release her car to her and to make arrangements for dust covers to be put on all furniture in the house.
According to court papers, Wairimu has lost a significant source of income and is therefore only capable of meeting her immediate subsistence needs.
Wairimu and her co-accused Peter Karanja pleaded not guilty to murder charges on Tuesday, after the court allowed the prosecution's application to merge the two cases.
