Justice Jessie Lessit has outlined the reasons why the note that the deceased Willy Kimani wrote before his horrifying murder was real and acceptable in court.
Kimani scribbled a letter on a piece of toilet paper after his arrest at the police station warning that his life was in danger before he was killed.
The message Willie provided to the construction workers who were walking by the police station where they were being detained, according Judge Lessit, who announced her verdict on Friday, is proof that the confession was genuine.
She claimed that this was because police informant Ngugi had admitted that the victims had been brought to the Syokimau police station.
The crucial note, which was written on a piece of three-ply tissue paper, is thought to be the last thing Kimani wrote before he, his client Josephat Mwendwa, and taxi driver Joseph Muiruri were brutally killed on the evening of June 23 in 2017.
Police informer Peter Ngugi, police officers Fredrick Leliman, Stephen Cheburet, Sylvia Wanjiku, and Leonard Mwangi were charged with the murder of the said Lawyer.
When the three victims left Mavoko law courts, where Willie had gone with Mwenda his client, they were kidnapped from their car.
Later, their bodies wrapped in black gunny bags were discovered dumped at the Oldonyo Sabuk River.
Police claim that after being kidnapped, they were held for a short while at the Syokimau police station before being taken to a field where they were executed one by one.
On June 23, 2016, Willy,a lawyer for International Justice Mission—was brutally killed alongside his client Josephat Mwenda and a taxi driver Joseph Muiruri.
The prosecution had requested the Court to convict all the accused persons on the grounds that they were all involved in the murder.
The state informed the jury that they had established beyond a shadow of a doubt that each of the five defendants had planned the brutal murder of the victims and that both Mens Rea and Actus Reus was corroborated to initiate the offence of murder.
