Sarah Wairimu, the widow of slain businessman Tycoon Tob Cohen, has filed an application in court seeking to have the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions cited for contempt.
Wairimu, through lawyer Philip Murgor, on Tuesday said the two agencies disobeyed an order issued on September 16 by Justice Jessie Lessit in which she directed that they desist from addressing the media on the investigations and evidence alleged to exist in the murder case.
Wairimu also wants DCI boss George Kinoti, an advocate from the ODPP’s office Juma Owiti and journalist John Kamau detained for a term not exceeding six months.
She said on September 18, in total disregard of Lessit’s order, the DCI in a series of tweets on its official and accredited handle, purported to give an unsolicited and uninformed opinion which assumes her guilt. The DCI and Kinoti, she says, were also quoted in a Dutch paper on September 18 discussing the case.
“Kinoti in particular disregarded of the court order and inferred the guilt of Sarah when he talked about the case in a different local paper.”
On the other hand, Owiti, an advocate from the ODPP, has been faulted for publishing an article on his Facebook page “disguised” as an academic post while assuming Sarah’s guilt.
Sarah believes that in order for sanctity to be restored in the proceedings and court orders to be obeyed, it is imperative that Kinoti, Owiti and Kamau are detained in prison for a term not exceeding six months for contempt of court.
She says Kamau in particular has published “sensational, false and prejudicial” articles on the ongoing investigations, quoting police investigators despite the court order of September 16.
