- Korir was accused of assaulting and causing bodily harm to Evelyne Koech at their home in Karen, Nairobi in 2020.
- Hearing of the theft charges against suspended Kenya Bureau of Standards boss Bernard Njiraini proceeds today for hearing.
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A Nairobi court will today deliver judgment in a case where Water and Sanitation Principal Secretary Julius Korir was charged with assaulting his wife.
Korir was accused of assaulting and causing bodily harm to Evelyne Koech at their home in Karen, Nairobi in 2020.
The woman who gave her testimony in November last year told the court she was beaten by her husband. She narrated that Korir returned home one day and asked for food but started beating her even before she could respond.
"On that fateful day, I was putting our child to bed when my husband walked into the children’s bedroom and shouted ‘Leo utaniona, iko wapi chakula?’ And before I answered he started slapping me. I was trying to protect the baby from the slaps," she narrated.
Evelyne also said it was not the first time she received beatings from Korir, adding that the physical violence started in 2015 and continued all through the years.
"There's a time when I was three days to delivery…he beat me in front of his workers and other children," she said.
An emotional Evelyne further told the court that she was lucky not to have lost the baby following the beating.
In March, Dr Stephanie Wakaba who treated Evelyne told the court that in 2020 while carrying out her duties at Nairobi Hospital, she received a patient named Evelyn Koech.
The court was told that Evelyne appeared to be sick because she had bruises and linear marks on her back, butt and a tear on her arm.
"She came in with a history of physical assault, I attended to her and did a physical examination. She appeared to be sick, in pain and had bruises," the court was told.
In May, the court put Korir on his defence after he was found with a case to answer.
Milimani senior principal magistrate Dolphina Alego ruled that the prosecution had proved its case against the PS and put him on his defence.
"Having gone through the evidence on record, I find that the prosecution has established a prima facie case against the accused," the magistrate ruled.
Korir in his defence denied the charges and asked the court to acquit him. That judgment will be made today.
Theft case against suspended KEBS boss proceeds for hearing
The hearing of the theft charges against suspended Kenya Bureau of Standards boss Bernard Njiraini proceeds today for hearing.
Njiraini was charged with theft, conspiracy to commit a felony, abuse of office and interference with goods subject to customs control, among other counts.
He was charged alongside Kenya Revenue Authority deputy commissioner Joseph Kaguru, KRA staffer Derrick Kago, Peter Njoroge Mwangi and Crispus Waithaka Macharia, a shipping agent at the Port of Mombasa.
Businessmen Mohammed Hassan Ali, Abdi Hirsi Yusuf and Pollyanne Njeri Kamau are the other three accused persons in the case.
They have all denied the counts and are out on Sh400,000 bail each.
The matter is being heard by Chief Magistrate Lucas Onyina.