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Slain couple's phones reveal money trail

Suspects in the murder of US-based couple in Nyamira from left: Peter Njoroge Kirika, Dennis Ondara Clement, Peris Ondara and Ezekiel Mogeni Migiro when they appeared before Nyamira High Court where they denied murder charges. [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]

The court hearing the case on the murder of a US-based couple at their Nyamakoroto home in Nyamira County has been told how money was transferred from their phones on the night they were killed.

A trial witness, who initially was a suspect in the murder case, narrated to the court how his friend, Peter Njoroge Kirika, borrowed a mobile phone from him in the evening that preceded the fateful night Edward Nyangechi Morema and his wife Grace Mong'ina Morema were slain in cold blood.

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