A secondary school teacher Hillary Okeyo who is accused of defiling a form one student before a Nairobi court after he was released on a cash bail of Sh 500,000 on Friday October 16, 2015.
BY SAM ALFAN.
A secondary school teacher who allegedly defiled a form one student will now remain in prison pending the hearing of the application by DPP seeking review bond terns.
High court judge Justice Grace Macharia directed that the Mr Hillary Okeyo not be released as ordered by Chief Magistrate Daniel Ogembo on Friday last week
The judge said due the nature of the offence he allegedly committed and the likelihood that he may interfere with prosecution witnesses, he shall remain in custody.
The DPP through senior prosecution counsel Mr Duncan Ondimu, told the court that trial magistrate failed to material facts placed before while granting bail to the accused.
He said that despite the accused being a teacher has relationship with students who are prosecution witnesses and he likely interfere.
Mr Ondimu said the accused character antecedents association and community ties are not known.
The offence facing the accused is a serious and attracts a minimum of twenty years upon conviction which can be enhanced into life sentence by the appeal court, he says.
Due to the nature of the charge, the accused is likely to abscond trial, saying it is important that the bail term is reviewed.
The accused was arrested on 12 October 2015 on suspicion of having defiled a student at Higridge secondary school and was produced in court on 14 October 2015 and entered plea of not guilty.
During the plea taking the prosecution opposed the release of the accused on bail given the gravity of the charge.
The accused on Bond of Sh 2 million with a similar surety with alternative of cash bail of Sh 500,000
The court fixed the hearing of the application for inter parties on October 28.
