Kenya: Court Orders Witness Locked Up

1 November 2013

An Embu court yesterday ordered a witness locked up for refusing to testify in an inquest into his brother's death. Evans Ngare was detained when he declined give evidence before magistrate Paul Biwott in the probe into Silvano Muriithi Mugane's death.

Mugane died on the night of April 9 last year at Kitharu village, Gaturi South location in Embu East district under mysterious circumstances.

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