A Nairobi Court has adjourned judgement of the controversial UK-based Bishop Gilbert Deya to July 17, 2023.
Bishop Gilbert Juma Deya was charged and found to have a case to answer in the children’s theft case.
The controversial Miracle Babies Bishop was set to know his fate today after both the prosecution and the defense closed their case in May this year.
However, when the case came up for judgement the court said the judgement was not ready.
The bishop was charged alongside his wife with stealing children and showcasing them during his preachings on television and social media to dupe his followers that he had powers to make barren women conceive.
However, the wife whom they have so far divorced was acquitted of the charges.
Bishop Deya has been protesting the move by DPP to discharge his former wife and prefers to charge him solely with the children’s theft.
Deya was deported from the UK by the authorities on August 4, 2017, after he was charged in Kenya with stealing and harboring five infants in his house in Mountain View.
The Court after listening to the prosecution case ruled that indeed the ODPP had proved a case against the bishop hence tasking him to prove his innocence.
Deya through his lawyer, petitioned the court to acquit him for lack of evidence, claiming that he was wrongfully charged with the same offense as his wife who was acquitted for lack of evidence.
The preacher has always maintained in court that he is being persecuted by the state.
He denied stealing the children and stated that he was in the UK at the time the alleged crimes were committed.
The bishop denied giving anybody orders to hold the five children at his Mountain View House No.226 in Nairobi.
