COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
The Late Jeff Mwathi’s uncle now say that his nephew who was found dead in DJ Fatxo’s home did not commit suicide as has been widely alleged. While testifying in the inquest into his death, Stephen Muchoki told court that he is sure that Jeff could not have jumped from Fatxo’s apartment on 10th floor. “I […]
City Lawyer Peter Wanyama is known for his lavish lifestyle but behind his success is a story of abject poverty and despair. In a post he shared online, Wanyama even say that at one point he contemplated suicide because of the situation they were in as a family. “The girls in the village rejected my […]
City lawyer wants Crotons Motors to compensate him for raising his hopes up about purchase of a Mercedes Benz that he later sold to someone else. Lawyer Shadrack Wambui wants the court to order the car dealer to compensate him by paying him Sh 113,842 for deceiving him. Wambui says on Saturday August 5 he […]
Justice Mugure Thande who issued orders suspending the Finance Act has been transferred from Nairobi to Malindi in the latest reshuffle by the Judiciary. In a memo by the Principal Judge of the high court Eric Ogola, Justice Thande who has been a judge at the Milimani Constitutional and human rights division has now been […]
A 74 year old German man who was charged with several offences related to defilement and child pornography has been sentenced to serve 81 year in jail by a Nairobi court. Principal Magistrate Thomas Scheller was found guilty of seven counts related to the sexual offences act. Njagi sentenced him to 30 years for the […]
A Pastor who used anointing oil to defile and sodomise two siblings saying its ‘God’s oil’ has been sentenced to 50 years in jail. James Njuguna Kuria of first born of the Holy Spirit was found guilty of defiling two siblings a boy aged 11 years and his sister aged 14 years. The boy told […]
A Mavoko court has stopped the burial of a woman pending hearing of a case to determine who will bury her between her husband and alleged ‘benten’. Senior Principal Magistrate Barbara Ojoo on Tuesday extended the orders issued on August 1 stopping the funeral home from releasing her body. In the case, Dennis Kivuti who […]
Over 10,000 Luos from Nyanza region have moved to court in a bid to get orders to form their own independent state where they can govern themselves. In a petition filed at the Milimani Law courts, Pascal Ojijo Ogillo want a referendum to be conducted so that they can secede. On behalf the 10,000 people, […]
The Labour court on Friday quashed a decision made by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to dismiss a police officer who had already been acquitted of defilement charges. In the case, officer Collins Makokha through lawyer Danstan Omari had challenged his dismissal saying the court had acquitted him off the charges but the DCI dismissed […]
Nyamira County Assembly Majority Leader Elijah Osiemo has passed away in a grisly road accident along the Maai Mahiu-Naivasha Road. At the time of the untimely accident, the late Osiemo MCA Nyamaiya was in the company of two other MCAs namely Duke Masira MCA Township Ward and Priscilla Nyatichi who are in hospital receiving treatment. […]
