The Director of Public Prosecution is against journalist Jacque Maribe reading news on TV if released.
Through Catherine Mwaniki, the prosecutor said such a role will intimidate witnesses in the case.
Mwaniki caused a heated exchange with Justice James Wakiaga as he put her to task to explain how reading news would intimidate her witnesses.
She, however, stuck to her guns that her witnesses would feel intimidated to come to court to testify against a figure they watch every day on the screens.
Justice Wakiaga at one moment caused a stir in the courtroom when he asked whether the witnesses would be terrified ‘that a criminal was reading news on our screens’.
Maribe’s lawyer Katwa Kigen opposed any move that would limit his client’s right to employment and the right to earn a livelihood.
“It is the first time I am trying a media personality and I will have to go sit and think about it,” Wakiaga said.
Maribe and her fiancée Joseph Kuria Irungu alias Jowie are facing charges over the murder of businesswoman Monica Kimani who was found brutally murdered at her Kilimani apartment house on September 19.
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