A Nakuru based Businessman was on Tuesday freed by a Nakuru law Court in a case in which he was charged with the theft of Sh200,000 worth goods.
The prosecution desk had told the presiding Chief Resident Magistrate Samuel Mungai that the accused Milton Theuri, 53 had on January 14 this year masterminded to steal the goods during an eviction exercise.
According to the charge sheet, the accused who was the centre of attraction in the eviction exercise failed to take maximum care to protect the properties of tenants who had delayed to remove them from the building that was undergoing renovation and thus caused the loss of the goods that belonged to seven complainants.
However the accused through his lawyer Lawrence Muraya had urged that the complainants had been notified and further informed in advance of the ongoing renovations in the building but failed to honour the notification.
The lawyer had told the Court that his client was not part of the team that carried out the renovation exercises and that there was no evidence to prove that he masterminded the theft and subsequent loss of the properties in question.
Magistrate Mungai in his ruling over turned the accusations urging that the complainants failed to prove to the Court beyond any reasonable doubt that they were evicted unlawfully and that the accused indeed masterminded the theft and loss of their property before he terminated the case.
The Magistrate gave the complainants 14 days to appeal to the ruling noting that the Court needed adequate evidence to compel the accused to compensate for the lost property during the eviction.