Lawyer Kimani murder suspect: Police cooked my confessions

Willie Kimani

Peter Ngugi Kamau, one of the key suspects in the probe of Lawyer Willie Kimani murder has denied making some confession, which the prosecution wants to rely on in the trial, stating that he does not understand English and he was given papers on which he placed his thumbprint.

The accused told the court that he refused to cooperate with the police officers this time round because they had not to pay him for a previous job.

He said after the arrest, he was kept in a safe house for about three weeks as they promised to use him as a prosecution witness.

He said while in the safe house, the officers treated him well; feeding him chicken and roasted meat as well as a packet of cigarettes daily.

Mr Kamau said in court that he had been promised a monthly fee of Sh30,000 and other benefits to cooperate with the police.

Testifying before Justice Jessie Lesiit, he said officers interrogating him after he was arrested promised to get him a safe house, the monthly fee and a vehicle to use in his second-hand clothes business.

Mr Ngugi told the court that he had been a police informer and used to spy on their behalf since 2009.

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He said when police picked him up on August 8, 2016, he thought they were seeking his services. As an informer, he would be paid good money, depending on the amount of work, he said.

The accused said he was picked up at Waithaka bus stop in Dagoretti and taken to Kiambu where he was interrogated for hours.

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