The High Court in Nairobi was today taken through an extensive digital evidence in the murder trial of former Safari Rally driver Maxine Wahome, who is accused of killing her boyfriend also rally driver and mechanic Asad Khan.
The suspect, Maxine is alleged to have assaulted Asad at their Nairobi residence on December 12, 2022.
Asad sustained critical injuries, which later resulted to his death while undergoing treatment at a city hospital.
A digital forensics expert attached to the DCI, who identified himself as a foreign specialist, testified that he extracted videos, photographs, call logs, and messages from Maxine’s iPhone.
The extraction produced a 76,000-page document, from which he compiled a 22-page report focusing on the crime scene, call logs, and relevant messages, in accordance with instructions from the investigating officer.
He acknowledged that not all multimedia files were included in his final report but maintained that the omissions were not intentional.
The court was also shown several videos, including four dated August 11, 2022, depicting Maxine with injuries around her eyes. The expert clarified that these images were unrelated to the December 2022 incident.
One of the key exhibits was a distress video played in open court, showing a woman believed to be Maxine crying as she told her father and detectives that she had been assaulted by Asad. In the clip, she is heard saying: “Daddy, he cut himself. He kicked the window. I was the one who was beaten up.”
The expert told the court that the video forms part of the defence evidence and insisted that his analysis found no alterations or tampering.
He further guided the court through call logs involving Maxine, Asad and Maxine’s mother, including a WhatsApp call between Maxine and her mother at 9:11 a.m., which lasted approximately nine minutes and 43 seconds on the morning of the incident.
During cross-examination by lawyers Philip Murgor and Steve Kimathi, the expert denied claims of doctoring documents or being influenced by investigators, reiterating that he conducted an independent analysis and followed his mandate strictly.
He confirmed that although he did not read all 76,000 pages due to the document’s size, the extraction preserved all messages, call logs, videos and images from Maxine’s device.
