Lamu-based boat operator Omar Lali [Courtesy]Lamu-based boat operator Omar Lali will have to testify in the inquest probing the death of Keroche Breweries heiress Tecra Muigai. This is after High Court Judge James Makau yesterday declined to block the magistrate’s court from hearing the inquest, as he had not served Tecra’s family. In the case, Lali complains that he was denied a chance to hear testimonies of witnesses who appeared before the magistrate’s court and cross-examine them. Lali argues that the inquest ought to have been conducted in Lamu instead of Nairobi. He is of the view that the case before the Milimani magistrate’s court was illegally before the court owing to the territorial powers to hear and determine cases.

Source: Standard Digital July 08, 2021 04:30 UTC