Technology arrived in the High Court in Narok when a judge heard a prosecution witness through Skype video from Beijing in a case in which a Chinese national is charged with murdering a woman at the Masai Mara. In his evidence via Skype, the Chinese tourist Yi Dong told Justice Justus Bwonwonga how his wife was attacked by Li Chanquing after an altercation that entailed use of abusing language. Yi Dong, whose wife succumbed to stab wounds at a lodge in Maasai Mara, on Tuesday presented his witness before Narok High Court.
“On August 8, 2016, my wife, friends and I had traveled to Kenya as tourists and were headed to Keekorok Lodge in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve where we had been booked by our organizers. When we were taking buffet, Li Chanquing (the accused) started insulting my wife with abusive language. I intervened and the accused left,” recalled Mr. Dong. He told the court that afterwards, while sitting with his wife at the dining table, the accused came again started insulting his wife with his hands at the back.
“It’s at this time that Mr Chanquing and my deceased wife started fighting. My wife shouted at me that the accused was holding a knife behind him. He stabbed my wife at the stomach several times, before turning back to me and stabbed me at the stomach and on my right hand. The visitors and other people present intervened and separated us,” he added.