A Nakuru High Court on Tuesday acquitted a former Rift Valley Water Services Board human resources assistant officer who was facing charges of murdering her husband.
Lilian Chepchumba Keter was being accused of killing her husband, Ronex Keter, at their house in Kiamunyi, Nakuru town.
Chepchumba was accused of committing the crime together with her brother, Fredrick Koech and her nephew, Daniel Mwaciru.
The prosecution told the court that the three accused on the material date used a power cable to strangle Ronex to death.
Chepchumba who denied the charges told the court that her husband committed suicide by hanging and that she found his body hanging from a power extension cable which he had tied to their wardrobe.
Justice Joel Ngugi in his ruling acquitted the three saying the prosecution failed to provide enough evidence to prove their case.
“I find that the circumstantial evidence relied upon by the prosecution was insufficient to establish that the death of Keter was a case of homicide arbitrated by the accused persons. I will as law requires give a benefit of considerable doubt established by the facts in the counsels’ submissions,” ruled Justice Ngugi, as quoted by Nation.
K24 reports that Justice Ngugi ruled that prosecution witnesses did not link the three to the murder and that no forensic tests were done on the electrical cable or rail crossbar to establish if the deceased’s fingerprints, DNA, or blood were on them to prove whether he committed suicide or not.