The Office of the director of public prosecutions today through their 37th witness, Police Officer Mwangi has tabled communication analysis matrix of the seven suspects believed to have murdered Lower Kabete MP George Muchai on February 7, 2015.
The murder case hearing today revealed that there existed a constant communication between the suspects during and after the murder of the late Lawmaker as some of the accused persons had engaged each other on phone during the same period for over 150 times.
According to the police officer, a stolen phone during the robbery that led to the murder of Muchai was traced to Simon Wambugu the 7th accused person who had inserted his line into the stolen phone.
Thereafter, his interview and interrogation process led to the arrest of the other accused persons in the alleged murder.
“Beginning with association between Raphael accused 2 and accused 4 Steven alias chokore..what I was able to deduce from analysis is that there existed an association that is close because asitiva in Feb 1st had engaged Raphael for 33 times while Raphael had engaged him for 77 times during the same period.” revealed officer Mwangi.
Clear analysis of the data indicated that all the suspects were connected to each other via phone calls with some engaging each other on phone for as many as 150 times between February 1st and 11th, 2015.
In the case, Eric Isabwa alias chairman, Raphael Kimani alias Kim Butcher, Mustapha Kimani alias Musto, Stephen Astiva alias Chokore, Jane Wanjiru alias Shiro, Margaret Njeri and Simon Wambugu are charged with the murder of late George Muchai, his driver and two bodyguards.
The late George Muchai met his death in Nairobi’s Central Business District early Saturday morning of February 7, 2015, when an unknown assailant sprayed his car with bullets.
At the Murder hour, his wife and Children were in a different vehicle ahead of him and according to his daughter, at the material time, they were heading home from a family gathering in Westlands.
Chief Government pathologist Dr Johansen Oduor who gave his evidence in 2023, said Muchai was shot at close range with a bullet lounged at a very high speed from either a G3 rifle or AK47 gun.
The murder trial will proceed on February 20, 2025.
