A video clip was on Thursday played in court showing an emotional Maxine Wahome narrating to her father and detectives how she was assaulted by her late lover Assad Khan before he died.
From the clip, the rally driver is heard crying, "Daddy, he cut himself. He kicked the window. I was the one who was beaten up."
The clip is part of the evidence relied on by the defense.
It was introduced when one of the prosecution witnesses told the court that he went to Kileleshwa police station and came with the officers to Assad’s house after finding him lying in a pool of blood.
Samuel Kimani told trial Judge Lillian Mutende that Assad was alive before he went to seek help from the police.
"He was lying there, mumbling. I heard him say, 'babe'," said the witness.
Kimani was a neighbour to Assad and chairman of the Kileleshwa Preston Court Residents Association.
He described Assad as a quiet person “but a totally different character when you get to know the other side of him.”
On occasion, the guards had told him of violent incidents in Assad’s house.
“Not once, not twice but multiple times, for the 10 years I've stayed there. The nature of the fracas has always involved a woman and him,” Kimani said.
Kimani said Assad had been a violent person to all his girlfriends; that he was a serial woman beater. He confirmed what the prosecution's first witness said, that Assad had six to seven girlfriends and he subjected them to violent acts.
On the fateful day, the security guard at Preston Court, one Hassan, called Kimani after seeing Assad’s body on the floor in a pool of blood.
It was then that Kimani proceeded to Kileleshwa and came back with the police officers. “When we came back we found Assad’s body had been moved. I gathered he had been taken to hospital,” he said.
In the company of the officers and Wahome’s father, Kimani proceeded to Assad's house where they found Wahome. She was crying and hysterical.
Because Kimani was inside the house, he overheard what Wahome was telling the officers.
“In a nutshell, she told the officers she went to hide in the kitchen balcony. She locked it. Assad in trying to gain access, he kicked the glasses on the door and that is how he sustained the injury on his ankle,” Kimani said.
It was at that juncture that the video clip was played in open court. Photographs were also adduced to illustrate what happened and blood on a broken glass.
The witness in describing to the court the state of the house said there was a trail of blood in the sitting room. There was also blood towards the kitchen. In the sitting room, there was a table with glasses and bottles of alcohol and Khat.
Asked why he chose to call the officers and not save Assad’s life, the witness said, “I didn’t think he was critically injured.”
Wahome is on trial over the murder of her ex-lover and fellow rally driver Assad Khan.
The case has been pushed to May next year.