Jeff Mwathi inquest: CCTV expert exposes inconsistencies in cameras where DJ Fatxo lived
A Nairobi court was informed that two of the installed CCTV cameras at an apartment in Roysambu, where the late interior designer Jeff Mwathi died, captured different times from other cameras.
The evidence tendered before Milimani Principal Magistrate Rose Ndombi on Thursday, October 23, 2025, the CCTV at the main gate and that at the 10th floor, where Mugithi artist Lawrence Njuguna, alias DJ Fatxo, lived, showed the same time.
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However, according to Chief Inspector Timothy Bett, who is also a CCTV expert and a key witness in the ongoing inquest of the late Mwathi, the ground floor and ramp area cameras were behind the other two by six minutes.
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“The main gate and 10th floor were synced, and it was established that there was no lapse. The ground floor and ramp cameras are behind by six minutes,” Inspector Bett told the court.
Further, Inspector Bett told the court that the fall of the deceased was captured by only one camera, which is on the ground floor near the parking area.
According to the evidence tabled in court, the deceased is seen going down at around 59 minutes, or one hour, after the DJ and the three ladies had left the 10th floor before checking out of the compound.
“The camera at the parking area captured someone falling down on the ground floor at 05:47:18,” Inspector Bett told the court.
After the cross-examination, Magistrate Ndombi tasked the officer to tell the court the real time when the person went down.
“So do we have to go back or ahead six minutes to get the real time?” Magistrate Ndombi asked Officer Bett.
In response, he said, “We are supposed to add six minutes to that time so that we are able to find the actual time the person fell,” Bett replied.
“I want you to synchronise this time, 5:47:18, the time at the camera at the 10th floor, with the exact time showing P3 and P4. I don’t know if they were going to the elevator or something like that, but the exact time in real time,” Magistrate Ndombi paused.
P3 and P4 were two men who, in the earlier proceedings, were identified as DJ Fatxo’s cousin and his driver (Chaka and Kim) and whom the court heard joined the five 15 minutes after they arrived at DJ Fatxo’s house.
The two, one who was in a white hood, black trousers and white shoes while the other was in black clothes, white shoes and dyed hair, were also captured leaving the elevator at the ground floor at 5:36:24.
Real time
Officer Bett proceeded to tell the court that the real time when they were going out of the 10th floor lift was 5:47, and then the ground floor captured a person dropping at 5:47:18.
“That is when they are going back; they are out from the elevator?” Magistrate Ndombi asked.
“Yes, your honour,” Bett replied.
“That is the time the body is hitting the ground?” Ndombi asked Bett.
“Yes, according to the camera time at the ground floor, but that is not the actual time,” Inspector Bett told the court.
She told the officer that the court also wants the actual time, asking him to synchronise to real time.
He told the court that in real time the person falls at 5:53 am, and P3 and P4 walk out of the elevator at 5:46 am real time.
