The Director of Public Prosecutions has asked the high court to convict former Migori Governor Okoth Obado and two others for the murder of Sharon Otieno and her unborn baby.
Obado, his personal assistant Michael Oyamo and the secretary Casper Obiero have been charged with the murder of Sharon and the unborn baby.
After calling a total of 42 witnesses the prosecution urged court to find all the three guilty of murder in both counts.
State counsel Gikui Gichui said the prosecution bears the burden of establishing that there is sufficient evidence which, if unchallenged, would warrant a conviction of the three accused persons.
She further submitted that the court only needs not make a determination on the guilt or innocence of the accused but must determine whether the evidence is adequate to proceed to put the accused persons on their defence.
Gichui said the murders of Sharon and her unborn child were a culmination of various interconnected activities where each accused herein played a strategic role which they knew or ought to have known to be calculated to the ultimate commission of the abduction and subsequent heinous double homicide.
The state told Justice Cecilia Githua that prove of death is supported by the evidence of Dr. Johansen Oduor who is the Government Pathologist.
In his testimony, Oduor formed an opinion that the cause of death of the late Sharon Belyne Otieno was severe hemorrhage due to penetrating force trauma.
He also noted that there were factors of manual strangulation and also found a fully formed fetus in the uterus, and upon examination, he formed an opinion that the late fetus died of sharp abdominal trauma.
It was also the prosecution argument that it had proved beyond reasonable doubt that the Obado, Oyamo and Obiero jointly and severally murdered the deceased Sharon and her unborn fetus.
Gichui said told the three accused persons had formed the requisite malice aforethought to cause the death of the deceased Sharon and the fetus.
Sharon was a student at Rongo University and in 2018 she was murdered while seven months pregnant, and her body dumped in Kodera Forest in Oyugis, Homa Bay county.
The ruling of the murder case against the three accused persons will be on January 30, 2025.
