Details of Murdered Billionaire Cohen's Letter to DPP Haji

Murdered Dutch Billionaire Tob Cohen who was reported missing on July 20 before his body was discovered inside a septic tank in his compound on Friday afternoon, September 13 had expressed fears for his life in a letter to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji eight days before his disappearance.

Reports by Daily Nation disclosed that this was actually the second time the deceased Billionaire was writing to Haji.

In a letter to the DPP dated July 12 which was also copied to the Inspector-General of Police, Hillary Mutyambai, the late tycoon had disclosed how his love life had become the greatest fear as well as the state of his broken marriage to his estranged wife Sarah Wairimu.

The former Chief of Executive of Philips Kenya in the letter had also revealed the signs that something tragic was about to happen to him.

Cohen who alleged that he was discriminated against urged Haji to take action. This was through Musyoki Mogaka and Co advocates.

“Unless your offices act speedily and accordingly, our client will continue to suffer humiliation, discrimination, and persecution because he is not a Kenyan national, which is wrong, distasteful and unfortunate,” wrote Cohen.

He also complained that Sarah was enjoying impunity at his cost yet he was the victim in the abusive relationship.

“My client is astonished at the manner in which the law is being applied to his disadvantage since no step has been taken by police officers at Parklands Police Station to prosecute Ms. Wairimu despite enough evidence demonstrating her guilt.”

This was after Cohen had complained that senior police from Westlands Sub-county were colluding with Sarah in a plot to prosecute him for assault, which would lead to his deportation and loss of property.

Fourty days after Cohen's disappearance, his body found buried in a manhole in his Kitusuru home, contrary to Wairimu's past claims that he had left the country to seek treatment. 

On Thursday, September 12, 2019, the court ordered that his wife, Sarah undergo a mental evaluation to determine whether she is fit to stand a murder trial. 

Wairimu was arrested on suspicion that she was involved in his disappearance and the plot to have him killed. 

This was after preliminary investigations by police alleged that she had coached witnesses to give false information pertaining to the movements of Cohen on the day of his disappearance.

Ms. Wairimu, however, on Friday, September 13 spoke through her lawyer, Philip Murgor after her husband's body was retrieved accusing the Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI) George Kinoti of staging the murder.

On the same day, Kinoti had narrated how the Dutch billionaire, Cohen, was murdered

"Cohen was murdered in his own residence. It is a gruesome murder. They took their time to kill innocent Cohen. I will not describe much now, but in the subsequent unfolding of events," the DCI boss disclosed.

"He was bound, hands, legs, and the neck, before he was murdered and then they hid him in an underground water tank," he emotionally explained.

 

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