A Kenyan judge has been arrested and accused of coaching the main suspect in a murder trial – a widow whose husband was found in a septic tank.<\/p>\n
Appeal Court Judge Sankale ole Kantai did not comment after his alleged link to murder suspect Sarah Wairimu came under scrutiny.<\/p>\n
In September the body of her husband, Dutch businessman Tob Cohen, was found two months after he had gone missing.<\/p>\n
Ms Wairimu pleaded not guilty to her husband’s murder and is awaiting trial.<\/p>\n
Lord Justice Kantai is accused of helping the suspect with her statement for the police about her husband’s death.<\/p>\n
He was arrested on Friday, released on bail and is due early next week to appear in court on charges of conspiring to defeat justice and interfering with witnesses.<\/p>\n
The Kenyan press has described this as “one of the most famous murder cases in Kenya in recent times”.<\/p>\n
The murder victim, Mr Cohen, immigrated to Kenya as an employee of Philips East Africa and later started his own company organising golf trips.<\/p>\n
He married Ms Wairimu, who was his personal assistant, in 2007.<\/p>\n
He went missing in July last year and his body was found in September, blindfolded and tied up in a septic tank.<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"