A postmortem report has ruled out murder of a Grade 8 pupil at Joy Gardens Primary in Tena-Umoja, Nairobi who died mysteriously after allegedly falling from the seventh floor.
According to the postmortem report which was performed by three pathologists, the deceased pupil died instantly after jumping from a Storey building.
The report confirmed that the boy had fractured limbs, spinal code, broken ribs among other injuries.
Initially, the DCI had arrested five staff officers from the school and arraigned them under miscellaneous application seeking to detain them for 21 days.
The ruling was slated for today but the School’s Lawyer Danstan Omari sought to make an application to arrest the ruling until the postmortem report is tabled in Court.
According to Advocate Omari, the report is expected to change the investigations from murder to suicide.
“Three pathologists, government, family and rep school have agreed bones were broken, front part broken, rib, spinal code and cause of death is a fall from height which exonerates our client,” Omari said.
The 13-year-old boy is said to have fallen from the seventh floor of the school building on Friday at around 6pm.
Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) visited the school on Saturday to obtain CCTV footage while seeking to establish events to the boy’s death.
Following the incident, two directors, and three other people were arraigned yesterday under a miscellaneous application with the prosecution seeking 21 days to detain the suspects, pending a probe into the case.
The ruling will be issued tomorrow.
