Willie Kimani killing: A timeline

Lawyers and human rights activists in Nakuru protest the killing of lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and their taxi driver Joseph Muiruri in 2016. PHOTO | SULEIMAN MBATIAH | NATION MEDIA GROUP


In 2016, three men – lawyer Willie Kimani, his client Josephat Mwenda and their taxi driver Joseph Muiruri – disappeared after they were last seen at a police station in Syokimau. That morning, Kimani and Mwenda had attended a court session in Mavoko for a case Mwenda had filed a against a police officer. Two weeks later, the bodies of the three men were found nearly 100km away in a river in Ol Donyo Sabuk.

Four Administration Police officers and a police informer, Peter Kamau, were charged with their murder. Three years later, Kamau confesses about how the four were killed.

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