Government pathologist Johansen Oduor was on Friday presented in a Meru Magistrates court over a repeat autopsy done on August 18, 2015.
Oduor was hard-pressed to explain how the clothes of the corpse, Benedict Karau, got soiled inside the coffin after second burial, as he wrote in his report.
He was cross-examined before Senior Resident Magistrate Evans Mbicha by lawyer Otieno Abuor who is representing Karau's third widow.
This was after he indicated so in his report, which raised questions on chances of the body having been tampered with in between the August and the March 12, 2015 postmortems.
The window had rejected the results of the first autopsy conducted by Moses Njue at the Consolata Hospital in Meru, which found myocardial infarction as the death cause.
But in his test which involved three other pathologists, the killer cause could not be established, though they identified bruises on the back of the forearm, which are considered defensive injuries.
About the soil, Oduor said that it might have broken into the view glass after the second burial.
“The body was in the coffin that had slightly caved in where the viewing glass was located probably due to pressure from the soil but was intact and no injury was caused by the glass," he said.
He could not, however, confirm if the body was intact in between the burial and exhumation.