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Sentencing was scheduled for last week but was pushed to today.
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Dwight was in 2012 arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts and charged with the murder of Fonseca.
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The High Court is today expected to sentence former Venezuelan first secretary Dwight Sagaray and three others after they were found guilty of murdering the late envoy Olga Fonsesca.
Sentencing was scheduled for last week but was pushed to today.
Dwight was in 2012 arraigned at the Milimani Law Courts and charged with the murder of Fonseca.
He was charged alongside Ahmed Omindo, Alex Sifuna, Moses Kiprotich and Kirui Chelogoi. Another suspect Mohamed Ahmed Hassan was never captured and warrants of his arrest remain unexecuted to date.
Fonseca was found murdered in her Runda residence in Nairobi.
She was strangled to death on July 26 2012, less than two weeks after arriving in Kenya to head the diplomatic mission.
She replaced former ambassador Gerardo Silva who was facing allegations of sexual harassment by male workers from the embassy.
Olga's body was found lying on her bed with a wire cord around her neck, hands and legs.
In convicting them, trial Judge Roselyn Korir on Wednesday said the state had proved their case against the accused persons apart from Chelogoi who was acquitted.
The prosecution presented an array of witnesses, 37 in total and produced 39 exhibits that were used to pin down the four.
Korir said the evidence produced in court by the prosecution demonstrated there was an outright conflict between Olga and Dwight.
That glaring conflict provided the motive to eliminate Olga.
The court was able to deduce the hostile and acrimonious relationship between the two through the evidence of the embassy staff.
"I have found their evidence to be credible. They narrated what they saw and experienced. They have no interest in siding with either party," said the Judge.
Anglo-leasing case
An anti-corruption court will rule on whether accused persons in the Anglo-leasing case have a case to answer.
The matter had been scheduled for Thursday but was pushed to Friday morning.
In the case, former PSs Joseph Magari, Dave Mwangi and businessmen Deepak and Rashmi Kamani, together with their father Rasmi Chamanlal have denied conspiring to defraud the Government over Sh3.5 billion.