The mother of slain Rongo University student Sharon Otieno Melida Auma, has urged the court to deny Migori governor Okoth obado bail at least until the case is concluded.
Auma asked the court in an affidavit to balance the request for bail against the greater public interest to find her daughters and unborn son killers and to determine that the grant of bail will undermine the latter.
“I pray that everyone linked to the murder of my daughter Sharon and her unborn child remain in custody even as the trial is expedited,” she says.
Melida says they are living in fear following the murder of her daughter adding that the thought of a free Obado during trial is frightening for her family.
“This will render vain the efforts being made by the DCI and the DPP to bring those who murdered my daughter to justice,” her affidavit reads in part.
Obado had on September 25 made an application for bail pending trial.
Two days later, Justice Jessie Lessit disallowed his application for reasons that the prosecution had not supplied all the parties with witness statements and the evidence.
Obado has since renewed his application for bail citing health grounds. He says that parties were supplied with the Committal Bundle on October 3, 2018 and is now at liberty to make the bail application afresh.
Their bail application will now be heard on Friday.