MONICA KIMANI’S MURDER CASE.

Earlier yesterday on 16^th June 2022, the chief investigating officer Maxwell Otieno appeared before the court. He told the court that Joseph Irungu who is also known as Jowie together with his fiancé Jackie Maribe murdered the famous businesswoman Monica Kimani.

The Chief Investigating Officer told the court that Joseph Irungu was captured leaving the place of murder at Lamuria gardens. The officer gave evidence that linked the two to Kimani’s murder. The Chief Inspector said that blood stains found on Jowie’s shorts matched the blood of the deceased lying in the bathtub.

 On Maribe’s side, the Chief Inspector claimed that Maribe’s car was spotted somewhere close to the scene of the crime, where Jowie was in the same car on the night of the murder.

Monica Kimani passed on the 19^th of September in 2018 and his body was found on the 20^th of September in 2018 in her apartment at Kilimani lying in a bathtub with her throat slit and her hand and legs tied with blood oozing her body.

Since then trials have been happening before the court. On 9^th October Jackie Maribe and Joseph Irungu were charged with murder. On 15^th October 2018, Jackie and Jowie denied the charges. Jackie also told the court on this same day that she heard gunshots in her closet only to find is fiancé who had shot himself.

On January 25^th, 2022, a security guard whose ID was found at the scene of the crime, a caretaker at Langáta Royal Park Estate, and a former Kilimani Deputy OCS appeared before Justice Nzioka Grace ad gave their statements. The security guard said he had lost his Identity Card at Langáta Royal Park Estate where he had gone to do some construction work. The caretaker claimed that he had not heard any gunshots while the Kennedy Araman who was Kilimani’s deputy OCPD back then said three witnesses identified Jowie.

Chief Inspector Maxwell Otieno will take the stand before the court on 11^th July 2022.