Philip Murgor, lawyer of slain tycoon Tob Cohen's wife Sarah Wairimu has insisted that his client is innocent, a day after Cohen's body was recovered after days of being missing.
The body of the Dutch golfer was on Friday retrieved from a septic tank within his Kitisuru home compound, with Ms Sarah in custody over possible involvement in the gruesome killing.
But speaking on Saturday, Murgor claimed that Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss George Kinoti has bungled the investigations by taking part without Wairimu's knowledge.
He faulted the DCI for linking his client to the murder without tabling any proof implicating her to the same, at the same time accusing the media of also driving the same narrative.
“She is innocent by law and on the basis of the evidence regardless of what the investigators say,” said Murgor as quoted by the Standard, raising several claims as grounds for his belief of the same.
He cited mystery in the investigations, wondering why the police suddenly stopped the search on Wednesday, setting the continuation for Thursday, when only meters to the tank.
Murgor says that on the day of the recovery, the officers went straight to the tank, after cordoning off the house, at the same time having charged Ms Wairimu with murder.
“It seems DCI wanted an opportunity to say there is something they have found," he said.
The lawyer also claimed that the plot might have been to pin his client from the start, judging by how he sees the investigation a being carried out.
Cohen, 71, had been missing for 43 days before being found, with the wife initially claiming that he had left for Thailand for medical attention, a narrative that was questioned by detectives.