What to expect as Jowie gets back to Court

Monica Kimani’s murder prime suspect, Joseph Irungu alias Joe Jowie will on Monday get before Justice Jessie Lessit to face murder charges.

Jowie was first arraigned in court on September 27, when police were granted ten days to conclude their investigations before they can prefer charges on Jowie who is a fiancé to Citizen TV journalist Jacque Maribe.

Maribe and another suspect Brian Kasaine who is her neighbor at Royal Park estate in Nairobi’s Lang’ata estate are also in custody, and will be arraigned in court on Thursday as per the court orders issued on Monday last week.

Detectives investigating the case have indicated that Jowie and Maribe are likely to face murder charges, while Kassaine will be charged with illegal possession of a firearm that Jowie used to shoot himself in an attempted suicide.

Monica was killed in her Apartment in Kilimani on the night of September 20, on arrival from Juba, South Sudan where she operated their family business, and was scheduled to travel to Dubai to meet her South Sudanese fiancée.

Detectives investigating the murder have said that they are now certain that Jowie was involved after DNA tests turned positive, indicating that he actually played part in the killing of the 28-year-old businesswoman.

Her body was discovered in a bathtub at her apartment in Lamuria Gardens in Kilimani, with her throat slit.

The Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti was not willing to discuss the probe in detail, but has hinted that two of the suspects in custody will face a murder charge.

Results from samples taken from Maribe are not yet out for police to confirm if she was with Jowie at the crime scene, after CCTV footage in the compound showed that he was accompanied by another person when he drove in Maribe’s Toyota Allion, that is detained at Kilimani Police Station.

Another detective briefed on the DNA outcome said it shows that Jowie may have had sexual contact with the deceased before or after the killing.

Police said they are yet to decide if to charge Maribe with murder, but are certain that she is guilty of giving false information and aiding Jowie in his cover-up plot.

After allegedly killing Monica, Jowie went to Maribe’s house, where they lived together, and shot himself on the shoulder after an argument with the TV presenter but the two reported the matter at Lang’ata Police Station as an attack by gunmen outside their house.

“We are yet to establish Maribe’s involvement in the murder, if any, but we have a problem with the fact that she helped her boyfriend in the cover-up by washing their house and even painted it to ensure no one ever gets to know that there was a shooting there,” our source, who is actively involved in the investigation, said.

Maribe is also accused of giving wrong information about Jowie’s movements on the night Monica was murdered, and also misled police about the gun Jowie used to shoot himself, and which was later recovered in their neighbour Kasaine’s house.

Detectives at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) said they have since established that the pistol was irregularly issued to Kasaine in 2015 and its licence had expired. This is a charge they are considering against Kasaine and Jowie on illegal possession.

Police are narrowing down to money as the motive of the murder, after it emerged that Monica was in possession of a large sum in foreign currency when she arrived in the country.

 

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