The High Court has certified as urgent an application by six police officers to have bodies of the two brothers who were killed in Kianjokoma, Embu County exhumed.
According to Justice Antony Mrima on Friday, the matter will be mentioned on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 for further directions.
Benson Mbuthia, Consolota Kariuki, Nicholas Cheruiyot, Martin Wanyama, Lilian Cherono and James Mwaniki are the six officers who filed the application for an inquest before any charges are preferred against them.
Court papers filed through their lawyer Danstan Omari on Thursday read, “When postmortem on the cause of death of the two deceased brothers Benson Njiru and Emmanuel Ndwiga was conducted, the petitioners chosen pathologists were not present… this the prejudice of having a postmortem report procured by the respondents.”
"It is their argument that while being ferried together with others and in the same police vehicle, the two brothers “in a suicidal act while escaping lawful custody jumped out of the moving police vehicle thus succumbing to injuries," the documents read further.
The six suspects, want to be released on bail pending conclusion of the inquest in respect of the death of the two brothers.
They were taken to Mathare hospital for mental assessment.
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