“They (film makers) stumbled on the boys who were terrified about a white man. They wanted to know why the boys were scared of them. The Kenyan authorities had no idea until the UK started investigations. That’s how the whole story broke,” Tobiko recalled.
On further investigations, UK’s Channel 4 news reported that Harris was accused of being in possession of indecent images of children way back in the 1980s and even jailed for 15 months in a British prison.
He was also banned from exiting the British jurisdiction and also working with children.
However, he appealed and the ban was lifted.
Sneaked Travel Documents
Questions of how sex offenders sneak out of the jurisdiction is a can of worms still tightly closed.
Once their criminal activities are brought to the attention of investigators, where there is evidence, their travel documents are withheld to ensure they don’t leave the jurisdiction.
But on many occasions, suspects have managed to get their documents back as discovered by Capital FM News. Capital FM News learnt that Durham an American citizen managed to get his passport back from the police when investigations into his conduct at the children’s home had commenced. The circumstances under which he got his passport back raised questions over who was responsible for letting him get away with such serious allegations.
On February 16, 2015, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in a letter addressed to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations Department (DCI) asked the office to establish “circumstances and the persons responsible for releasing the passport back to the fugitive thereby enabling him to flee the country.”
The DCI was also asked “to clarify the circumstances and the persons responsible for allowing the fugitive to have access to the girls’ dormitory thereby enabling him to commit the heinous crimes.”
Durham’s trial is scheduled to commence on June 9, 2015 in the US.
Capital FM News was informed by the government that 10 witnesses including six children, two doctors and a police investigator are set to travel from Kenya to the US to testify against Durham.
In the other case, Harris sneaked out of Gilgil and Kenya’s jurisdiction on fears that he was being investigated. It was by luck that UK took it upon itself to investigate him, otherwise, he had already left Kenya’s jurisdiction making it hard for Kenya to prosecute him.
In a different case, Calgary Singelton, a British is facing murder charges over allegations that he led to the death of his 22 year old Kenyan girlfriend.
Neither the police nor the prosecution could explain how persons facing such grievous crimes get back their travel documents even when their investigations are active.
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