Eldoret High Court has ordered DNA samples to be extracted from Ibrahim Rotich the primary suspect in trial for the murder of former World Cross-Country Champion Agnes Tirop.
Justice Robert Wananda ordered that the suspect be accompanied by police to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret so that blood samples could be taken.
According to State Counsel David Fedha, the blood samples had to be matched with the blood found on garments and other materials in the house where the athlete was found slain in Iten town’s rural estate.
In making the application for the blood samples to be taken from the suspect, the state prosecutor said, “Your Lordship, I pray that you issue orders that we are allowed to take the samples from the suspect so that we can compare them with that on the clothes and weapon that was recovered from the scene of crime by the police as exhibits,”
A postmortem that was carried out by two pathologists at Iten County Referral Hospital Mortuary revealed that the deceased had suffered stabs in the neck and was hit on the head with a blunt object.
The athlete was found dead in her house in Iten on October 13, 2021. She was buried at her parent’s home in the Mosoriot area in Nandi County on October 23, 2022.
