The prosecution in Monica Kimani’s murder case is seeking to use Jacque Maribe’s statement to nail Joseph Irungu alias Jowie.
Jowie was charged with murdering businesswoman Kimani on the night of September 19/20 2018.
The lifeless body of Monica Kimani was discovered at around 1 pm on September 20th, 2018 at her Luciane Apartments house on Kitale Lane off Denis Pritt road.
The late businesswoman was found dead in a bathtub with her throat slit. Jowie and his then-lover Jacque Maribe were arrested in connection with the murder.
The case is still dragging in court as the prosecution seeks to tie Jowie with Kimani’s murder.
On July 19th 2022, Jowie lost a bid to stop the prosecution from producing Jacque Maribe’s statement that implicates him in the murder.
Jowie, through his lawyer Hassan Nandwa, had opposed the production of the statement that was written by Maribe in which she told the police that he (Jowie) shot himself in her house.
Chief inspector Maxwell Otieno had told court the statement he took from Maribe was the second she recorded with the police.
Maribe had initially recorded her first statement which corroborated with Jowie’s statement but on September 29 she voluntarily decided to change it thus the second statement.
The prosecution told the court that Maribe had not objected to the statement being used against Jowie in court.
Chief inspector told court that Maribe wrote the second statement on her own volition and was never coerced.
Maribe decision to allow her statement to be used by the prosecution is seen a move meant to throw Jowie under the bus and save her own skin.
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