BY NT CORRESPONDENT.
An investigating officer in a traffic case in which a Kenyatta University student was alleged to be hit by a motor vehicle has denied before a Nairobi court conducting a probe on whether the victim was drunk before she met her death.
Sergeant A. Madoyi of Industrial area police station while being cross examined by lawyer Danstan Omari, said he did not bother to taken blood sample from the deceased Maureen Wambui Gachagua who is said to have knocked by a prison warder Dismas Gatengwa Motongwa along Mombasa road last year.
The IO said the accused never stopped at the scene of the accident as he just kept speeding. The students right leg was cut off immediately with the rest of the body hanging on the roof of the car.
But lawyer Omari in his cross examination said the suspect who was driving at a speed of 120km per hour could possibly have imagined he hit an animal.
“I put it to you that there is a possibility he could not have known what he had hit. He might have honestly hit an animal,” the lawyer said.
Wambui who was a third year student at Kenyatta University was hit by a senior prison officer on July 15 2018.
Prosecution claim that the accused hit the deceased and drove three kilometres with wambui’s body on the roof of his car before dumping it in South C Estate, Nairobi court.
The court heard that the Madonyi did not also verify the facts relied by the eye witnesses.
The investigating officer further confirmed that he did not know whether Wambui 22, had attended an overnight party with her boy friend, Dennis Mburu Baraga at NextGen Mall on Mombasa road before she me her death.
Milimani Senior resident Magistrate Elector Riany was informed that the accused person after allegedly accident he reported the matter at Langata police station, saying he had knocked an animal.
Madoyi told the court that he did not establish who dumped the body at the junction roundabout along Mombasa road.
He however said that the postmortem report indicated that the deceased died of excessive bleeding.
The body of deceased had multiple injuries,according to the medical report tabled in court as exhibit.
The investigating officer said that he preferred three charges against the accused which includes, dangerous driving, giving falsely information and failing to stop after the accident.
Gitenge, who has since been interdicted, is facing charges three counts before a magistrate and was released on cash bail of Sh10,000.
Gitenge allegedly hit and killed Ms Maureen Wambui Gachagua, a Kenyatta University student on July 15, last year. He allegedly committed the offence on Mombasa Road at around 5am.
Other than causing death by dangerous driving, the former prison officer was charged with failing to stop after an accident and giving false information to a police officer.
