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Kenya: School Head Testifies in Murder Case
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The Nation (Nairobi)
2 May 2008
Posted to the web 1 May 2008
Wanjiru Macharia
Nairobi
The principal of a school in which a Form Four student is charged with the murder of a colleague had already handed over the suspect to police when he received news of the victim's death.
Mr Laban Njoroge Karimi, the Koelel High School head, who took to the dock on Wednesday afternoon, told the court that he was in his house on the fateful day when he received a call from a teacher, telling him that a student had fainted in the dormitory and had been rushed to hospital by the teacher on duty.
The principal told the court that he had already booked the 16-year-old at Gilgil Police Station for assault when he got news of the death of the Form Two student.
Mr Karimi told Lady Justice Murugi Mugo that he went to the school's dining hall and enquired from the students what had transpired.
The principal said he was told that the boy had been involved in a fight with the hockey captain. He later learnt that the student being referred to was Albert Kiromo Sackey while the one who had fainted was Bernard Makau.
The teacher was testifying in a case where Albert Kiromo Sackey is charged with the murder of Makau at the school on February 3 this year.
Mr Karimi said he went to Form Four East, where Sackey was studying, and asked him why he hit Makau.
He told the court that Sackey told him he wanted to 'promote' him to Form Two, but that Makau resisted and punched him on the face.
Mr Karimi further told the court that he drove Sackey to Gilgil Police Station and booked him for assault.
He said that it was while at the police station that he was informed of Makau's death.
Mr Karimi said he went to the hospital where the boy had died, identified the body and ordered that it be preserved in the mortuary.
He said two other boys and Sackey spent the night at the police station.
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The teacher said he went back to the scene of the fight with a police officer who took a blood stained T-shirt from Sackey's dormitory.
Asked by the defence lawyer whether the school management usually punished students by taking them to the police, Mr Karimi answered that students were punished internally, but that he decided to take Sackey to the police station since this was the first time a student had lost consciousness after a fight.
On Tuesday, a teacher at the school found himself in trouble when he told the court that he did not know about bullying in the school. Hearing resumes on May 30.
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