The family of a Kisii woman who was burnt on her face with hot water by US based boyfriend have claimed that they are being threatened to withdraw the case.
Through their lawyer Dastan Omari, Mercy Momanyi’s family say they have been getting calls with a bid to drop the case.
“Some of the family members have been threatened so that a new investigation can be launched on the whether the perpetrators want to interfere with the witnesses,” Omari said.
He said it important for police to investigate whether the said people want to bribe the families to withdraw the matter.
Mercy Momanyi’s boyfriend Sheldon Kajairo Okerosi poured hot boiling water on her last month before fleeing back to the US.
The two met on Facebook in January last year when Mercy was a student at a college in Kiambu and began a relationship. They eventually met in December.
They moved in together and he allegedly convinced her to drop out of that college with the promise of enrolling her into daystar University but he became abusive until last month when he did the worst by pouring hot water on her.
The incident happened in Sheldon’s Kisii home in the presence of his mum who was also seriously burnt as she shielded Mercy from the wrath of her son.
Speaking this afternoon at Kisii police station, Omari said he had come on record for the family to get justice for his client who has been left with grievous injuries.
“My client faced the biggest humiliation a human being can face being poured hot water on her face, the beauty of the woman is on the face she might not get another husband or lover,” Omari said.
Omari said his client was discharged last week and police had recorded her statement and the P3 has been signed.
He noted that this is an issue that concerns a person who is allegedly staying in the US and the department of immigration must be involved adding that the police have written to the Director General seeking to know when the aggressor left the country.
“We want to know if he has not left the country then the police can start looking for him here but if he left then the Kenyan authorities will invoke Interpol to get him back here to be charged,”
Omari said so far, they were satisfied with the way the police have done their job and the professional manner in which the DCI has handled the case.
