Chilling details were revealed on Monday as a confession made by one of the suspects in the murder of lawyer Willy Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri was presented in court. In his written statement Mr. Peter Ngugi, a police informer, revealed how the murder of the three was planned and […]

Three officers attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) were, on Wednesday, October 2, arrested after they were caught smuggling bhang. In a statement, DCI explained that the suspects were nabbed along Garissa-Thika Highway with Ksh239,500 and 245 kilograms of bhang. The three suspects were identified as PC Japhet Fondo, PC Bob Otieno & […]

Private investigator Jane Mugo has been ordered to present herself to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) over allegations of issuing death threats to two Kenyans. Ms Mugo got into trouble with the DCI last month, when she was accused of engaging in robbery with violence. However, she claimed that she was being frustrated by […]

Police in Awendo have arrested eight primary school pupils alleged to have stolen 23 laptops at Yago Primary School. The eight were accused of stealing gadgets delivered from the Ministry of Education to boost the Digital Literacy Programme at the school. According to reports, the laptops allegedly disappeared from the head teacher’s office. Police acting […]

Courtesy The Star Sex, violence and property were at the heart the divorce between Dutchman Tob Cohen and his wife Sarah Wairimu, papers obtained by the Star show. The court papers, exclusively obtained by the Star, paint a picture of marriage with sky-high hostilities, one that was irretrievably ruptured and had become conjugally nonexistent. The […]

The proprietor of Plan 254 club in Nairobi’s Kilimani, Stephen Mark Oduk, was on Thursday, September 26, arrested by DCI officers in connection to Ksh100 million in fake dollars found in his club. Sleuths also recovered 147 bars of fake gold in the early morning raid in the club located along Nyangumi Road. Paraphernalia believed […]

Andrew Kibe, a popular radio presenter, was arraigned in court on Wednesday for allegedly failing to pay a Ksh.2.5million loan. The Kiss FM morning show host is said to have originally borrowed Ksh.215,000 from a former colleague. Court documents seen by Citizen Digital reveal that the said colleague is Joshua Ichang’i Weru. Weru reportedly loaned […]

A Molo court was in disbelief as a middle-aged man appeared less bothered after being handed a life sentence for defiling his 6-year-old sister. The court was further shocked when the accused, Wesley Langat, admitted to defiling his younger sister on several occasions. Langat was charged with defiling the minor on diverse dates in September […]

Armed prison officers had to whisk Sarah Wairimu away from her late husbands, Tob Cohen, funeral after the event turned hostile with emotions rising high on Tuesday, September 24 at the Jewish Cemetry along Wangari Maathai Road in Nairobi. According to The Standard, as the burial was drawing to an end, police officers were overpowered […]

Police in Kirinyaga county are investigating a case where a 30-year-old man allegedly kidnapped himself. Wilson Maina Wamugunda went missing on September 3 but was later found with over Ksh. 40,000. The disappearance of the boda boda operator had caused panic in Sagana town after his alleged captors demanded ransom money. His colleagues allegedly started […]

An accountant from Kericho Law Courts was arrested on Monday, September 23, 2019, in connection to a heist, where 5 high-end vehicles were stolen from Nippon Korea Investment Ltd Yard in Nyali in 2014. Allan Andayi Osale was found in possession of two Toyota Land Cruisers, registration numbers KBU 933N & KBQ 260Z. Detectives established […]

Kenya’s Equity and I&M bank have suffered a major blow after being fined 56 million for acting against money laundering rules in Tanzania. The two are among five banks fined for failure to conduct proper customer due diligence and file suspicious transaction reports to the Financial Intelligence Unit in Tanzania. I&M Bank was fined Ksh29.5 […]

DCI boss George Kinoti is set to re-open investigations into chain killings related to land in Murang’ a County that jarred the country in 2015. The Standard on Monday, September 23, reported that the DCI is set to reinvestigate the case after the High Court damned the police for doing shoddy investigations in a shameless […]

Deceased Dutch billionaire’s, Tob Cohen, will was finally opened by Kirundi & Co Advocates on Friday, September 20, in the company of Cohen’s sister, Gabrielle van Straten and her lawyer Cliff Ombeta. However, Sarah Cohen and her lawyer, Philip Murgor boycotted the process. According to the Star, Lawyer Chege Kirundi, however, declined to reveal the […]

Sarah Wairimu, widow of Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen, on Monday successfully appealed to have a postmortem test that was scheduled for Monday be pushed to Tuesday. Cohen’s body was retrieved from a septic tank within his Kitisuru home on Friday, and was set to undergo a pathological test at the Chiromo Mortuary before burial. Through […]

Wealth obsessed wife of slain Dutch businessman Tob Cohen, Sarah Wairimu has now appealed to the court to release her on bail. Through her lawyer, Lawyer Philip Murgor, the Prime Suspect in the murder case is fighting for her freedom so that she can take part in the case involving multimillion properties she shared with […]

Sarah Wairimu Kamotho, the prime suspect in the murder of her husband Tob Cohen, will remain in police custody until September 26, 2019 when she will be arraigned for plea taking in the case. Justice Jessy Lesiit, during Monday’s mention, also directed that mental assessment be done on Sarah within seven days. The postmortem on […]