Nyeri Senior Resident Magistrate Pauline Chesang and two police officers are Monday morning expected in court over the murder of lawyer Robert Chesang in Lukenya, Machakos County.
According to police, the magistrate who is Chesang’s wife spent the night at the Athi River police station after she was arrested on Sunday.
She had been summoned for questioning over the murder of her husband when police detained her.
Two other police officers and a retiree had been arrested over the incident that occurred last month.
Chesang was shot several times by unknown armed men. He was alone when he was attacked and that nothing was stolen from his home during the attack.
The retired officer, who left the service last year as commissioner of police, was arrested in Samburu on Saturday before being brought to Nairobi.
The two officers, who are attached to Mutuine Police Station in Dagoretti, Nairobi, came under scrutiny after it emerged that the car used to ferry the killers to Chesang’s house belongs to one of them.
One officer was arrested on Wednesday while the second one surrendered on Saturday at Athi River Police Station after learning that he was wanted.
The team investigating the shooting said they have strong evidence linking the officers to the killing.
Police said they recovered seven spent cartridges at the crime scene. Two cartridges were found in the house and the rest lay outside a window.
Detectives said the motive of the killing appeared to be a love triangle, adding that preliminary findings had shown that Chesang had expressed fears for his life and had not left the house for two days prior to his murder.
A car that the gunmen used during the attack was detained at the Athi River Police Station. Police said one of the officers in custody and his son had earlier been seen driving it in the area.
The lawyer had a long-running domestic dispute with Maisy that had spilled into the courts. (See separate story)A guard, who was on duty at Moke Garden estate, told police that the two gunmen arrived at about 12.30pm and held him hostage for a while as they demanded that he leads them to Chesang’s house.
They knocked at his door and when he peeped through the curtains, one of the gunmen opened fire and shot him through the window.
Police said Chesang’s neighbours alerted them about the shooting, adding that the attackers did not steal anything. They left the guard tied up in one corner of the compound.