NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 9 – The High Court now says Joseph Irungu, known as Jowie was in Monica Kimani’s house the day she was slain and had accessed her house with an Identity Card belonging to another person.
According to Justice Grace Nzioka, there was enough evidence that Jowie was the last person seen with Monica at her Lamuria Gardens house.
“The first accused person was in the deceased house on the material date and he was the last person to be seen with the deceased,” she stated.
“The evidence of the protected witness is that Harun whom he identified on the parade as the first accused person left that house at 23.00 and no one else went to that house.”
Justice Nzioka said this was proven by a protected witness who also identified Jowie in the identification parade.
She further indicated that Monica’s Kimani’s Sudanese boyfriend was not in Kenya at that point.
“There is evidence that the deceased was supposed to travel the following day to go to Dubai to meet the Sudanese boyfriend and business and holiday,” she stated.
Earlier, Justice Nzioka dismissed claims that Joseph Irungu popularly know as Jowie did not know Monica Kimani.
She described such claims as ‘untenable, insincere, an afterthought and false’.
“Court finds that the first accused person was known to the deceased because they were together at Kenya Polytechnic. They were in the same class,” she stated.
Jowie who is the first accused person had claimed he did not know Monica before her death
He was charged alongside Jacque Maribe in 2018.
