NAIROBI, Kenya Sep 18 – The High Court has convicted Duncan Kimathi of murdering United States International University (USIU) student Sarah Akello Aruwa after finding that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.

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Justice Kanyi Kimondo found Kimathi guilty of murder contrary to Section 203 as read with Section 204 of the Penal Code.

Aruwa, a final-year International Relations student at USIU, disappeared on June 30, 2012 after telling a friend that she was going to meet a man she had met at the university library.

Her body was later discovered in a thicket in Ndithiati Village, Ngewa, within Githunguri, Kiambu County.

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The prosecution relied largely on circumstantial, electronic, documentary and identification evidence to link Kimathi to the disappearance and killing.

The court heard that Aruwa’s family began receiving ransom demands after she went missing.

A caller using her mobile phone initially demanded Sh100,000 before reducing the amount to Sh70,000 following negotiations with her brother-in-law, Jim Onyango.

The caller later sent a threatening message warning the family that Aruwa would be killed if the money was not paid.

Police and relatives who searched Aruwa’s locked house recovered a notebook containing a handwritten note stating that she had gone to meet “Daniel Mureithi”, described as a USIU student living in Savannah.

Government document examiner SSP John Muinde testified that the handwriting in the notebook was made by the same person who wrote samples attributed to Aruwa.

📰 Source: Capital FM Kenya