Dutch businessman Tob Cohen was said to be abroad for medical care, but his wife, Sarah Wairimu Cohen, could not tell police which airline carried him there, a Nairobi court has heard.
She told the court that police were first alerted by the Netherlands Embassy in July 2019, when Cohen could no longer be reached.
The missing-person report landed on her desk on July 30, and she immediately got in touch with Wairimu, who insisted her husband had flown out for treatment.
Wairimu came to the police station the following day. According to the officer, she said the two had breakfast together before Cohen left and that he apologised to her as he went.
She also conceded that she had not heard from him since his supposed departure. Investigators pressed her on the prolonged silence, and Wairimu reportedly assured them there was nothing to worry about, saying: "I know he is in the Netherlands for treatment and he will be back."
Forensic document examiner John Muinde, the 27th prosecution witness, also took the stand. He examined three contested signatures, labelled N, P and Q, and told the court they bore marks of an attempt to imitate Cohen's handwriting.
In his view, such forgeries are usually betrayed by irregular pen movement, uneven letter proportions and flawed structure.
The court further heard evidence about September 13, 2019, when investigators received a tip that a body was concealed in a septic tank at a property in Lower Kabete.
A witness who helped retrieve it described the remains as wrapped in a black bedsheet and bound with manila ropes, with a polythene bag covering them and a red bathrobe tied around the head. Cohen's sister, Gabrielle, identified the body, which was then taken to Chiromo Mortuary.
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