A Flying Squad officer David Chemilil testifies at a Milimani court on Tuesday, October 24. [Photo: the-star.co.ke]Crucial evidence has placed police officers facing trial over the murder of rights lawyer Willie Kimani at the crime scene on the night he and his client and driver were killed.Evidence placed before a Milimani court on Tuesday gives detailed information on signal movement retrieved from a police pocket radio, reports the Star.It showed that the suspects were near Mavoko law courts the day Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda, and their driver Joseph Muiruri went missing.David Chemelil, an officer attached to the Flying Squad, testified before Justice Jessie Lesiit that the gadget signal was traced near Mavoko law courts on June 23 at around mid-day, adds the Star.The signals retrieved from the Integrated Command Control and Communication System – a police CCTV system, further shows the signal moving from Mavoko area to Syokimau police post.The same radio signal is seen then seen moving from Syokimau to Mlolongo police station, in the evening around 7 pm."A few minutes later, the same gadget moved from the police station towards a certain isolated ground along Mombasa road," Chemilil said as quoted by the Star.According to the officer, the radio signal stayed in the same area for more than five hours and only moved some few minutes to midnight.The witness informed the court that the signal was later captured leaving the area and moving towards eastern bypass and later connecting to Thika Superhighway during the wee hours of the night.The Star says that on the same night the prosecution claims Kimani, Mwenda, and Muiruri were killed and their bodies were thrown into Oldonyo Sabuk River.The prosecution says the three men were kidnapped as they left the courts, held briefly at Syokimau police post before taken to an open ground along Mombasa Road where they were tortured and killed mercilessly.

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