An Administration Police (AP) officer accused of killing Rift Valley music sensation Diana Chelele, who was his ex-wife, was on Friday set free.
AP officer Eric Musila had been accused of playing a part in the murder of the musician whose body was discovered with deep cuts on her hands and body in January 2016.
According to the court ruling, Musila was set free due to lack of evidence and that the investigations were generally shoddy.
Chelele's body was found at her Kapkwen home in Bomet County and police at the time believed that she must have been murdered elsewhere and her body dumped at her house.
Musila was subsequently nabbed the same month after detectives traced him to a Nakuru hotel where he had been hiding.
"He travelled from Nairobi on Tuesday, January 5 (2016), to Kericho where the signals show he moved from one bar to another and kept on calling a number belonging to the deceased," reported the officers at the time.
That was, however, not the only murder the troubled officer was linked to.
In 2018, Musila underwent a trial for a second murder in which he was accused, alongside his ex-wife (Chelele), of murdering Eldoret-based surveyor Eliud Kipchirchir.
Kipchirchir's murder took place at Ruseya, Bomet County in, March 2012, but the two pleaded not guilty when they were arraigned in court.
Chelele, however, died before the case was concluded and Musila was charged for her murder in a Naivasha court.
