PS Cabinet Affairs Julius Korir has denied assaulting his estranged wife Evelyn Koech in 2020 and has requested that the court acquit him.
Korir took the stand to defend himself on Today, claiming that the allegations were false and that the charges against him were motivated by a personal vendetta against him.
Korir told Milimani senior principal magistrate Dolphina Alego that they were separated at the time he is accused of assaulting Koech, and she had already moved out of their matrimonial house.
“Your honor, I married the complainant in June 2014, and our marriage had problems.” We lived apart yet under the same roof. “The complainant left the house around 2019,” Korir said.
He added that shortly after that, she moved to children’s court for custody of the kids and also prayed for child support in 2020.
In 2021 she filed for divorce at Milimani law court and the marriage was dissolved in December 2021.
“The complainant was given full custody of the children. I was only granted supervised visitation which I felt aggrieved and appealed. She didn’t like that I complained about seeing my children and saw me as a violent person.
“In my opinion, the case is because I appealed the decision of the children’s court to remove the restrictions when accessing the children,” he narrated to the court.
