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The Soft-Spoken and no-nonsense High Court Judge Jessy Lesiit has later found four suspects in connection with the killing of human rights advocator Willie Kimani
After several years of the court case dragging in the corridors of justice, today Friday 22th July, 2022, the family of the slain lawyer can breath a sigh of relief from going to courtroom
Willie Kimani’s client Josephat Mwenda and driver Joseph Muiruri were also enjoined in the same suit since they were all also executed in the fateful night under unclear circumstances
The suspects are Fredrick Leliman (first accused), Stephen Cheburet (second accused), Sylvia Wanjiku (third accused) and Peter Ngugi (fifth accused).
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Leonard Mwangi, who was the fourth accused, was pardoned over lack of sufficient evidence that implicates him.
Lesiit said the four, who were police officers at the Mlolongo Police Station, meditated for three hours on whether to kill the victims on June 23, 2016.
“I have carefully considered the entire evidence adduced in this case by both sides and as well as the submission by both counsels.
Having done, so I find that the circumstantial evidence established against the first, second, third and fifth accused persons justifies the guilt of the accused beyond any other reasonable doubts besides that of guilt,” said Justice Lesiit
Mwangi, Wanjiku, Cheburet, and Ngugi had been accused of abducting Kimani and his co-victims on their way home from attending a case at the Mavoko Law Courts that had implicated Administration Police Officer Leliman, the first accused.
The prosecution, which produced 46 witnesses in court, said Leliman had unlawfully arrested and shot Josephat Mwenda, a boda boda operator, in April 2015.
Leliman took Mwenda to the Mavoko Law Courts, where he was charged with being in possession of bhang, resisting arrest and gambling.
An aggrieved Mwenda reported the matter to the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) and sought help from the International Justice Mission (IJM).
It was Mwenda’s action that angered Leliman as he felt his job was on the line after IPOA took up the matter and the officer was summoned for questioning.
IJM also came on board and tasked Willie Kimani to defend Mwenda in the case at Mavoko Law Courts.
On the fateful day of June 23, 2016, the three appeared in court for a hearing, not knowing it would be their last day alive.
Ngugi confessed that after the killings, the bodies were put in gunny bags, stashed in two car boots, and dumped in River Athi at Ol-Donyo Sabuk, Machakos County.