16 yr old Girl in Maigo’s murder pleads guilty.
16 yr old girl accused of killing Nairobi Hospital finance director Eric Maigo has pleaded guilty to murder.
She took the step, even after being warned three times by Magistrate Kanyi Kimondo about the possible consequences of the plea.
The charges were translated and read in Kiswahili, she was asked if she understood everything but still accepted that she is responsible for the death of Maigo.
The justice ordered her to have lengthy talks with her lawyers before she appears before Justice Diana Mochache on 8 November for further Instructions.
The Director of Public Prosecutions has recommended that the suspect be charged with murder after the plea.
Early September, The directorate of criminal Investigations stated that they had recovered clothes believed to have been worn by the main suspect during the cold blooded murder of Nairobi Hospital’s Acting Finance Director Eric Maigo,on September 15, 2023.
DCI stated,”The clothes a red checkered shirt and a grey pair of animal-print pants were found in a semi-permarnent wooden shack in Bombolulu village, deep inside the sprawling Kibira settlement.”
“The suspect who has since been identified as Ann Adhiambo alias Nut, is currently on the run and is believed to be between 15 to 17 years old. She is said to have sat her KCPE examination at the Dagoretti approved school between 2021 and 2022,” DCI stated then.
The DCI further stated that they had captured her scaling perimeter walls in CCTV footage retrieved by crime scene detectives close to the scene of the murder, prompting detectives to launch a manhunt across the city.
Maigo’s lifeless body was found in a pool of blood on September 15, bearing 25 stab wounds. At that time, The detectives were yet to establish the motive of the murder
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