The Kware dumpsite bodies suspect, Collins Jumaisi Khalisia was today arraigned in Makadara Law Courts a day after he was arrested on links to the bodies retrieved in Kware.
Speaking through his lawyer in court, Collins Jumaisi claimed that he was tortured into making the confession that he murdered the women, while pleading with the court to grant him access to medical care.
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“My client, as he sits there, is in dire need of urgent medical attention. For reasons that the period under detention, he was subjected to molestation, torture and the confession that the public is being treated to having murdered 42 persons is laughable.”
According to the lawyer, John Maina Ndegwa, his client, Collins Jumaisi confessed under duress and was forced to confess to the statement that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) released upon his arrest.
“My client has been subjected to horrendous inhuman mistreatment so that he can confess to issues which are alien to him. I pray that the court directs for urgent medical attention even as they do their investigations.”
However, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations in their defense claimed that the accused was never tortured and that only one police officer was assigned to the suspect to record his statement.
In addition, the DCI asked the court to grant them 30 more days with the suspect in custody as they need more time to trace witnesses and families of the victims who are scattered across the country.
Additionally, the DCI said they’ll use 30 days to conduct DNA sampling, an identification parade, as well as subject the suspect to mental assessment. However, the defese urged the court to grant the police only 14 days to detain the suspect as investigations continue.
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However, the court granted the prosecution to hold Collins Jumaisi Khalisia for thirty days pending further investigations before arraignment back in court after the lapse of the time.