Three officers withdrawn from Briton's death case
According to a post-mortem report, Alexander Monson, 28, died from a blunt trauma force on his head, which caused high pressure resulting to a heart attack. Photo/FILE
Three police officers from Diani Station involved with the investigation of the death of Alexander Monson, son to a British aristocrat have been withdrawn from the case awaiting transfers.
The Nation has established that the three officers who were on duty when Alexander Monson was arrested for allegedly smoking bhang in public at a night club have been advised to take day-offs awaiting further instructions.
The trio are said to have participated in the arrest and booking of Mr Monson at the station where he developed complications while in custody.
Mr Monson was taken to Palm Beach Hospital but died thereafter.
According to a post-mortem report conducted by private and government pathologists, his death was allegedly caused by a blunt trauma force on the head, which caused high pressure resulting to a heart attack.
Mr Monson, who was booked at Diani Police Station was a student at University College in London.
He was to be charged with being in possession of narcotic drugs including a quarter smoked roll of bhang.
Tourist police also recovered other drugs in the suspect’s vehicle among them one tablet tadalafin- 20mg, 4 tablets of diazepam- 10gm and ketamine hydrochloride, which are still at the government chemist for screening.
According to a police officer privy to the investigation who sought anonymity for fear of being victimised, several rizla rolling papers (used to roll bhang) were also recovered.
“The team has finalised its investigation and recommendation made. The suspect was booked appearing normal and our report has proved police officers had collaborated with some prisoners in the custody to torture the suspect,” said the officer.
He added: “The information about Mr Monson is a top secret and is being handled by very few officers who have access to the Occurrence Book (OB), which all suspects are booked for criminal cases.”
The report comes a few days after Coast Provincial Criminal Investigation officer Ambrose Munyasia confirmed a team had been constituted to investigate how the tourist died and the post-mortem report, which has indicated the suspect died of injuries.
Alexander was the son of Baron (Nicholas) Monson, - 12th Baron of Monson, a Lincolnshire landowner and peer.
The deceased jetted into the country on April 29 for a holiday until July 10 according to his visa and he lived with his relative at Four Twenty South cottages in Diani.
