COURT & LEGAL STORIES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
Controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie and his co-suspects will spend 47 more days in custody to allow police conclude investigations into the Shakahola massacre. In the ruling, Shanzu SPM Y. Shikanda allowed the application by the prosecution to continue holding Mackenzie and the other suspects to allow them conclude investigations. The court said it found merit […]
A man who wanted a condom company to pay his damages for selling him a faulty condom that broke during intercourse has lost the case. The high court on Thursday dismissed the case in which Williamson Omworo wanted compensation after he got an STD due to the condom breaking. However, Justice Lawrence Mugambi threw out […]
The Late Jeff Mwathi who was found dead at DJ Faxto’s home had attempted suicide once before his untimely death. This came out during the inquest into the death of Jeff when Fatxo’s lawyer was cross-examining the first witness to the testify. Lawyer Duncan Okatch was cross-examining Stephen Muchoki an uncle of the late Jeff […]
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 […]
