The death of a former assistant chief in Embu and the disappearance of his heart are shrouded in mystery. Pathologists at Meru Level Five Hospital performed a second autopsy on his remains and discovered that he was missing his heart and kidney. His death was investigated by a court, but there was no evidence to support any murder accusations.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecution has received a recommendation from Principal Magistrate Evans Mbicha that people who have been disparagingly named and connected to Benedict Karau's death be questioned and the evidence reexamined.
Magistrate Mbicha concluded that "there appears to have been foul play on the death" of Karau as a result of complicated patterns pointing to "culpability of his third wife Martha Gakou and her associates" after hearing testimony from 15 witnesses during the judicial inquest.
One of the strange things the court noticed was that Karau was wearing a suit when he got choked on food, yet ended up in the hospital wearing pajamas.
Another oddity is that Karau's hands and head were bruised, and a private pathologist, Dr. Moses Gachoki Njue, determined that Karau had died of a heart attack, ruling out any head injuries. The inquiry, which investigated why the body was missing, concluded that the chief passed away while being transported to the hospital.
The third wife of polygamous man Karau, Martha Gakou, said that he choked on food while eating dinner at home before he passed away on March 2, 2015. Since that Karau had bruises to the upper part of his face, some family members questioned Ms. Gakou's assertion. Moreover, blood was coming out of the lips and nose. According to court documents, there had reportedly been a significant ruckus at home the night before he passed away.
He didn't have a heart or kidney, pathologists discovered during a second examination. On March 11, 2015, in Consolata Mission Hospital, Nkubu, the first postmortem revealed that the organs had been removed and stolen.
The body was exhumed on August 18, 2015, as some family members were not persuaded by the initial conclusions that the guy had died of a heart attack. They aimed to identify the origin of bodily injuries.
Former chief government pathologist Dr. Njue, who performed the first autopsy, was accused of stealing important body organs but disputed the claims.
Dr. Njue declared that he had taken the initiative to conduct a histology, which could be done in Nkubu or at his private practice in Nyeri, and that the results would be available in two weeks. He never came back.
A magistrate court started a judicial inquest to determine the cause of death, but it was unable to determine if Karau was killed or actually choked on food as his third wife Martha Gakou claimed. At the time of his death, he was 74 years old.
In his decision, Magistrate Mbicha urged DPP to obtain the statement of a missing witness, Phineus Mwirigi, who shared a home with Karau and Gakou and who, according to testimony, was present as a major witness to the death.
The magistrate stated, "I believe and recommend that the ODPP Prosecution keep its file open, rethink and re-evaluate the evidence herein, and ensure, using the available legal mechanism, that the statement of Phineus Mwirigi is properly and truly captured and the material persons mentioned herein are interrogated further.
The polygamous nature of Karau's family, the court concluded, caused fractures, divides, and trauma.
The magistrate stated, "There is also some disagreement as to who is and is not the deceased's biological offspring; the court will not enter this realm.
He claimed that Karau's death was surrounded by anomalies and other activities that could not be wished away.
"The original clothing, the suit, doesn't seem to have been located; this is both questionable and deficient. The magistrate stated that the witnesses' assertion that the doctor undressed Karau when he arrived at the hospital was remained unconvincing and suspicious.
Also, a different car was utilized to transport Karau to hospitals after the first one reportedly ran out of petrol.
According to Mr. Mbicha, "the court considers that the foregoing appears suspicious and lacking and that there was some information being suppressed" after observing the witness' demeanor and behaviour during the testimony on this matter.
Karau was a local of Mikinduri. According to the facts presented, Mikinduri Sub-county Hospital appeared to be closer to Meru Level Five.
The magistrate questioned why he had been taken all the way to Meru but still need immediate care.
Also, it was unclear how Karau was given mouth-to-mouth resuscitation while there was evidence that he was bleeding from the mouth and nose.
Dr. Johansen Oduor, the head government pathologist, observed that Karau had bruises on the scalp of his face and injuries on the posterior portion of his right upper arm; some of the wounds looked to be defensive wounds.
The magistrate stated, "The explanation given by the third family's witnesses that the injuries were sustained when Karau was being transported to the hospital in the moving motor vehicles is not plausible as Karau in all the instances as was testified when being transported to the hospital was between two people on either side of the motor vehicle supporting him.
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