A man who is accused of murder has turned heat on a police officer for allegedly framing him over the incidence.
Defending himself before Nakuru High Court Judge Maureen Odero on Friday, Alexander Mwangi Kariuki instead accused Mr Mbugua, a police inspector, whom he said had a grudge aginst him.
“I insist that I am innocent and all these charges by Inspector Mbugua are baseless because he had earlier charged me with robbery but the case flopped and the courts released me. He has now created these ones again,” he told the court.
The accused, who is alleged to have killed David Kinyanjui Kamau in Kihoto village Naivasha a year ago, further denied claims that his brother is the one who hinted to the said officer that he had committed the offence and even went ahead to direct them where they would find him.
“We are not enemies with my brother Maina and claims that he is the one who tipped the officers about my involvement with the murder or my whereabouts are untrue,” he said.
Inspector Mbugua in his testimony told the court that Maina protested to them that it was not fair to harass him over an offence the accused had allegedly committed.
He added that he later took them to where the accused lived and when they did not find him he directed them to Citizen Bar in Naivasha town where they found him and arrested him.
He had further told the court that the deceased was allegedly killed over a DVD which he was blamed of stealing from the accused.
The accused denied ever knowing his accomplices in the case a Mbugua and Ken who were however not in court. He told the court that he only shared a cell with the two at Naivasha Police Station. According to the deceased wife Lilian Kinyanjui, the accused and the said accomplices came to their house and demanded to see the deceased aside.
She said they left with him only for his body to be found the following morning along the road. She added she had known the accused for quite some time though the accused refuted the same.
Hearing will continue on January 21, 2016.