The Director of Public Prosecutions has filed fresh charges against Sarah Wairimu Kamotho Cohen, accusing her of providing false information to police and swearing a false affidavit concerning the alleged loss of her passport.
In a statement released on Friday, November 7, the court proceedings at Kibera High Court revealed that Wairimu faces two counts related to allegedly fabricating claims about a missing passport in February 2023.
According to court documents, on February 20, 2023, at Munyange Police Station in Othaya, Nyeri County, Wairimu allegedly knowingly and maliciously provided false information to Chief Inspector Mercy Riungu, the Officer Commanding Station (OCS).
She reportedly claimed that her passport had been lost, prompting the officer to issue her a police abstract based on the purportedly false report.
In the second count, Wairimu has been charged with false swearing contrary to Section 114 as read with Section 36 of the Penal Code. The prosecution alleges that on the same date, at Pamki House in Nyeri Town, she appeared before Advocate Muchiri wa Gathoni and swore a false affidavit claiming her passport was lost, despite knowing this was untrue.
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Wairimu denied both charges when she appeared before Principal Magistrate Zainab Abdul at the Kibera Law Courts. She remains remanded at Lang'ata Women's Prison, where she is simultaneously facing trial in a separate murder case.
The new charges come as Wairimu continues to face trial for the murder of her late husband, Dutch billionaire Tob Cohen, whose body was discovered in a septic tank at their Kitisuru home in 2019.
Wairimu was initially arrested shortly after Cohen's body was found and was charged with his murder. However, the case was subsequently dropped in favor of an inquest to determine the circumstances surrounding his death.
Following what the prosecution described as the emergence of new material evidence, the Director of Public Prosecutions reviewed the case and directed that Wairimu be charged afresh with murder contrary to Section 203 as read with Section 204 of the Penal Code.
According to the DPP's statement at the time, there was overwhelming evidence indicating Wairimu's involvement in her husband's killing on the night of July 19 and 20, 2019, at their residence.
