Shots came from home of accused, court told
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Mr Mohammed Ismail Madey (right), Mr Abdi Elmoge Abdi (left) and Mr David Kihara Muchiri leave a Nairobi court where they were charged with murdering lawyer Antony Nahashon Ngunjiri on September 21.
A house-help heard gunshots at the compound of a businessman accused of the murder of a city lawyer on the evening he was killed, a court was told on Tuesday.
Ms Jane Wangechi said she heard three gunshots at the compound of Mr Joseph Macharia Muchiri moments after seeing a group drag and beat up a person in the compound.
Mr Macharia is accused of killing lawyer Nahashon Ngunjiri alongside police officers Mohammed Ismail Madey and Abdi Elmoge Abdi.
The policemen were based at Nairobi’s Kasarani Police Station.
Mr Ngunjiri was killed on September 21, last year, after he visited a residential address near Safari Park Hotel to serve court papers. (READ: Kibaki lawyer gunned down by police officers)
Ms Wangechi, who was giving evidence in the murder trial, was then a house-help in the home of Mr Macharia’s neighbour.
She said that she had just returned to her employer’s house at about 6.30pm when she heard noise.
“Someone was screaming ‘help me father!’ within their compound,” she said.
Ms Wangeci said she heard Mr Macharia ask the person being beaten who had sent him to kill him (Mr Macharia).
She claimed that she heard a voice from the group urging them to kill their victim, amid clapping and laughter. Then she heard the three gunshots, she said.
A doctor who conducted an autopsy on the lawyer’s body will give evidence when the trial resumes on Wednesday.
