Seven college kids walked free after new security camera footage showed their classmate Lorna Kathambi Karani actually died trying to parkour between balconies at Harmony Plaza Apartments in Ngara. Dennis Kariuki Gitonga, Louis Osiro, Lucy Mora, Ali Kabwana Kamaku, Precious Kendi Mutembei, Austin Ochieng, and Wendy Kerubo had been locked up for a week as suspects, but prosecutors dropped everything once the video proved the 23-year-old Daystar University student just ate it mid-jump.
The magistrate basically turned the hearing into an intervention session and asked the students how their week in jail without booze went. Some cops admitted they had drinking problems while their parents stood there looking devastated. Investigators had originally thought something sketchy had gone down because the group was hammered and making noise on the 12th floor before Karani ended up dead on the ground.
The case shifts to a public inquest, and the students will testify as witnesses instead of getting charged with anything.
The magistrate basically turned the hearing into an intervention session and asked the students how their week in jail without booze went. Some cops admitted they had drinking problems while their parents stood there looking devastated. Investigators had originally thought something sketchy had gone down because the group was hammered and making noise on the 12th floor before Karani ended up dead on the ground.
The case shifts to a public inquest, and the students will testify as witnesses instead of getting charged with anything.
