Richard Wasike before Mombasa Chief Magistrate Edna Nyaloti at the Mombasa Law Court in Mombasa County on Tuesday 8th June 2021. [Kelvin Karani,Standard]A distraught father whose son was found dead in a pastor’s car in Mombasa told a court that his extended family and villagers in his rural home believe he sacrificed the boy. Richard Wasike told Mombasa Chief Magistrate Edna Nyaloti that he cannot travel to his rural home, fearing reprisal from those who think he donated the six-year-old boy for a religious ritual. Wasike told the court his children left home earlier than him on February 25, 2018, for a church service and he followed them later. “On arrival, Reverend Maundu told me to go to the police station because my son had been found,” Wasike said, adding he later saw his son dead in the car.

Source: Standard Digital June 13, 2021 05:26 UTC