Nakuru High Court has allowed the prosecution to withdraw an application seeking to have a faulty mobile phone belonging to a murder suspect of former Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology (RVIST) lecturer repaired to enable extraction of data.
Justice Joel Ngugi granted the orders to have the application dropped after the prosecution said they were no longer pursuing the same.
In the application dated January 29, police wanted the phone belonging to Godfrey Kipkemoi Kangogo, the main suspect in the murder of the former lecturer Irene Jepchumba, repaired for investigations.
Police claimed that Kangogo's mobile phone which was taken to the cyber-crime unit in Nairobi for forensic examination was damaged as it could not power on.
The court heard that a forensic examiner only managed to extract an SD card and retrieved some of the photos he took on the date the woman was allegedly killed.
According to the police, only the deceased's phone could be accessed where some photographs were retrieved as well as WhatsApp and text messages which Kangogo had sent to her.
The police said they suspect that the accused person had intentionally damaged the phone knowing that there was vital information that could form part of the evidence.
Jepchumba's body was retrieved from Molo River few meters from Choka Falls in Rongai Sub-County on July 6, 2018.
Kangogo, who was with the lecturer on a fateful day, claimed she slipped and fell to her death.
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