DUTCH LAWYER IN DEFILEMENT CASE DETAINED.

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Dutch retired lawyer Hans Egon Dieter Vriens before a Nairobi court where he pleaded not guilty.
BY NT CORRESPONDENT.

Nairobi Magistrate Court has detained aDutch national charged with defilement.

Court ordered the accused to remain in custody until the victims testifies in the case.

The 66 year old Hans Egon Dieter Vriens is accused that on diverse dates in the year 2014 in Nairobi, he defiled a 10year boy..

The retired Poland lawyer is also facing a charge of defiling a eight old girl in year 2011 in Roysambu.

The accused is facing other two sexual offences.

Prosecution said the accused has been hiding for the last six months and changed his residence and could not be traced even through his number.

“The accused was found hiding in a vacant house in a closet within the apartment to evade the arrest and therefore likely  to disappear if bailed out” said prosecution.

Further the prosecution believes that he is in communication with some witnesses and if released on bail he is likely to interfere with witnesses .
He pleaded not guilty to four  counts of defilement. He was arrested in Kasarani by Detectives from the Child Protection Unit &Transnational Organized Crime Unit.

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