Deceased Dutch Billionaire Tob Cohen's widow, Sarah Wairimu Cohen on Monday, September 23, registered another win in court.
Reports by The Star indicated that High Court Judge Stella Mutuku ordered that Sarah should be escorted to the Jewish Cemetery at 2 p.m. to attend her late husband's burial
The court's decision comes ahead of Cohen's burial that is to take place on Monday, at 2 p.m. at a Jewish Cemetary on Wangari Maathai Road in Nairobi.
Cohen's widow and his sister, Gabrielle Van Straten had on Thursday, September 2, agreed on four conditions ahead of the tycoon's burial.
One was that Sarah, who is being held in remand before pleading to murder charges on September 26, was to be allowed to attend the ceremony.
On Wednesday, September 18, Sarah wrote to Chiromo Mortuary disputing the release of the businessman’s body to his sister for burial.
She argued that Gabrielle did have the authority to bury the departed Dutchman. However, the following day, a meeting was held in a city hotel on by the two lawyers, Cliff Ombeta who is representing the Dutchman and Sarah's lawyer, Philip Murgor who sought to iron out pertinent issues that had emerged on Wednesday.
It will not benefit either of the parties if we start having a tug-of-war of who owns Cohen’s body. Cohen deserves to have a dignified burial,” stated the tycoon's lawyer.
Cohen will be buried according to Jewish traditions in a private ceremony that will see only family members attend.
This comes in the midst of tension between the two families after Cohen left Sarah out in his will, to which Ms. Wairimu through her lawyer declared war on the beneficiaries of Cohen's will, stating that she will fight them aggressively in court.
Wairimu and Murgor had declined to be part of the process to open Cohen's will at Kirundi & Co Advocates.
