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Ruling of Monica murder case delayed after Maribe falls sick

Former Citizen TV journalist Jacque Maribe. (Capital FM)

By Apollo Ochieng | Friday, January 26, 2024

The judge ordered that Maribe be produced in court before a ruling is made.

The High Court on Friday ordered journalist Jacque Maribe to be produced in court before it issues a ruling on the murder of businesswoman Monica Kimani.

Justice Grace Nzioka issued the orders after the first accused, Joseph Irungu alias Jowie appeared in court.

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Maribe was reportedly taken ill on Friday. Justice Nzioka, however, ordered that she be produced in court ahead of the delivery of the judgment.

Maribe and Jowie are set to know their fate in the murder of businesswoman Monica Kimani.

Evidence presented before the court by the prosecution alluded to the fact that both Maribe and Jowie were culpable of the murder. The prosecution further alleged that Maribe acted with a common intention alongside her then fiancé Jowie to murder Kimani with about 35 witnesses testifying in the case.

The late Kimani was murdered in her Lamuria Garden apartment in the Kilimani area, on the night of September 19, 2018, after arriving in the country from South Sudan.

Kimani had arrived in the country from South Sudan and was picked up by a taxi and dropped at her apartment before the incident happened.

Her lifeless body was discovered in a bathtub in her house by her brother George Kimani with her hands and legs tied and her mouth taped shut.

Kimani had previously been scheduled to travel to Dubai in September of that year to meet a certain Sudanese businessman before she met her death.

If found guilty of murder, both Maribe and Jowie could be sentenced to death, jailed for the rest of their lives or slapped with prison terms.