BY SAM ALFAN.
The widow of murdered tycoon Tob Cohen has moved to court seeking to suspend her murder trial.
In the application before the High Court, Sarah Cohen wants the trial suspended, pending the determination of her petition.
Sarah also wants the court to compel the DCI, AG and DPP to make an undertaking to pay Sh 500 million in damages for the ongoing waste, damage, neglect, possible vandalism and theft of her matrimonial property.
The property is situated on Farasi Lane, Mugumoini close, lower Kabete. The High Court barred Sarah from accessing the home, after it was declared a crime scene, unless with accompaniment of DCI officers.
In the same petition, Sarah wants the three to be compelled to release her Porsche Cayenne motor vehicle to avoid further wastage and destruction due to lack of maintenance, possible theft and vandalism.
Also sought to be released are her two pet dogs being held at Kenya Society for the protection and care of animals in Karen.
Sarah said the three abused powers of their state offices and allowed numerous persons unrestricted access to the home.
She argues that the access has deliberately contaminated the scene making it impossible for her to ever conduct independent investigation or test to determine whether the purported finding of the body in empty water tank as alleged was not a case of planting and fabrication of evidence.
The widow alleges that the DCI and the AG hurriedly and maliciously procurers a false document examiner’s report dated August 28, 2019 in order to stage manage and justify her malicious arrest and incarceration for an alleged investigation into the offence of forgery, for the sole purpose of gaining the time and opportunity to fabricate evidence to falsely implicate and frame her for Cohen’s murder, who by then, was only reported a missing person.
According to her, the DCI, AG and DPP took over possession of her matrimonial home and co-owned property with the deceased together with all fixtures and movables under the false pretext that it was a scene of crime, and refused to provide a comprehensive inventory of all property taken over, with the sole intention of illegally handing the property to the siblings of the deceased, with whom the DCI had duly developed an unduly familiar and questionable relationship.
She further states that the DCI and AG, through their offices, while she was in custody, continued to release purported details of the criminal investigations into the disappearance of her husband, to the print and social media who engaged in a frenzy of media reports to depict her as being exclusively culpable for the disappearance and identifying the two state officers as the source of information.
