Sarah Wairimu’s lawyer Philip Murgor maintains that his client did not kill the Late Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen.
Addressing journalists at his office in Ecobank Towers, Nairobi on Saturday, September 14, Murgor said in a 17-day search operation by DCI detectives, they had combed everywhere in Tob Cohen’s Kitisuru compound, including the underground water tank, where his body was retrieved from on Friday, September 13, and that their previous searches yielded nothing to link his client to the murder.
Murgor suggested that Cohen could have been killed elsewhere recently and his body planted at the scene.
“I have talked to pathologists, and they have said there is no possibility that after close to 50 days a body would be found in a state that Cohen’s was in,” said Murgor.
The lawyer claims that his client was only allowed access to her house twice in a period of 17 days, hence there was no way she could kill and hide his body in the water tank during that period.
“The two times she was allowed access to her house, she was escorted by DCI detectives. Sarah had gone to her house for a bath and change of clothes,” said the lawyer.
Murgor further alleged that the last time Cohen was spotted on July 20, he was in the company of two women.
“I spoke to Sarah [yesterday], and she is saddened that her husband has been confirmed dead,” said Murgor.
Murgor’s remarks come barely a day after DCI boss, George Kinoti, said that Cohen, 71, was brutally tortured before being killed.
Cohen’s widow, Sarah Wairimu, is in police custody, awaiting mental evaluation to establish her fitness to stand trial.
