After more than five years of waiting for justice, the High Court on Friday finally delivered its verdict on the murder of businesswoman Monica Kimani who was killed in her apartment at Lamuria Gardens in Nairobi.
According to the rulling by Lady Justice Grace Nzioka, she went through the evidence presented by the prosecution in the case against Jowie and his co-accused Jacque Maribe.
Lady Justice Grace Nzioka ruled that the prosecution had adduced adequate evidence and “proved beyond reasonable doubt” that Jowie indeed killed Monica Kimani. Here’s the evidence that the court used to rule that Jowie Irungu was guilty of the murder.
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Whether Jowie Irungu knew Monica before her death
According to Jowie, he did not know Monica before her death in 2018. However, Grace Nzioka termed Jowie’s claim as “untenable, insincere, an afterthought and false.”
She cited witness statements by Monica’s brother George Kimani who told the court that Jowie went to the same college (Kenya Polytechnic) with his late sister as well as evidence from a mobile data analyst who confirmed phone conversations between the two.
Whether Jowie stole and used the stolen ID to access where the deceased was staying
On this, the judge found that a Kenyan by the name of Dominic Bisera lost his identity card on September 17 2018 when he went to Royal Park Estate, where Jowie and Maribe lived, to look for casual work.
It would later be proved in court that one of the people who visited Monica on the fateful night of September 19 2018 produced an ID in the name of Dominic Bisera.
Whether the clothes he was wearing implicate him in the commission of the offence
Justice Grace Nzioka pointed out that from the prosecution witness accounts, there was “collaborative evidence” on the clothes Jowie was wearing on the fateful day.
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Whether he was in the deceased’s house and whether he was the last person to be seen with the deceased
On this matter, the judge cited evidence from a protected witness who from the identification parade singled out Jowie whom he said left the house at 11 pm and no one else went to that house.
Whether Jowie had a gun on the day of the murder
On this, Justice Nzioka concurred with the prosecution that Jowie intentionally secured a gun from his neighbour which he “intended and used to subdue the deceased.”
This according to Grace Nzioka, had proven beyond reasonable doubt that indeed Jowie Irungu was guilty of the murder and put his sentencing date to be on March 8th 2024.