Why court sentenced former OSC to death

The fate of the Former Ruaraka OCS Nahashon Mutua’s case has been sealed.

The high court was convinced that he killed inmate Martin Koome six years ago and sentenced him to death on Thursday.

Judge Stella Mutuku said, “The Prosecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt that the police caused the deceased suffering while in cells which caused his death.”

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On the night of October 19, 2013, at Baba Dogo Estate in Nairobi, Martin Manyara had a domestic brawl with his wife, after which he attempted to strangle their child.

His neighbours, who were alarmed by the incidence after he chased his wife away, alerted Ruaraka Police station officers, who booked him at the station for attempting to kill.

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His wife went to the station the next day to check on him. She was informed that he fell ill and was taken to Kenyatta National Hospital.

On reaching KNH, the woman found her husband dumped on a bench, unattended. He could not talk, hear or move, and died a few minutes later.

“How can a police officer of his rank not know that the kind of brutality he used would result into death,” posed Mutuku, adding: “I find him guilty as charged and convict him accordingly.”

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Although the officer said that there was a fight between Koome and another inmate, leading to the injuries, the judge ruled that all the witnesses confirmed to the contrary.

“Why wasn’t the fight heard by police officers who were on duty or recorded in the Occurrence Book? It goes to show that he was in a cover-up mission,” ruled Mutuku.

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KNH doctors said Koome had deep wounds on the head, cuts on the lower lip, eight fractured ribs, brain haemorrhage and excessive bleeding from the neck that caused his death.To cover up his act, the OCS implicated one Kelvin Odhiambo, who had also been arrested and was in the cell, with the murder, and charged him.

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However, Odhiambo sought the help of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority and confessed everything that happened.

Charges against him were withdrawn and he became a witness against the OCS.

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