Omar Lali’s Sh250,000 a month stipend from Keroche heiress

 

An autopsy later revealed that she died from injuries consistent with a fall down the stairs.

She had sustained injuries on the left side of her head and she is believed to have fallen off the stairs of a house where she was staying with Mr Lali.

Another witness, Peter Kariuki, told the court that the two had constant arguments in the three or four occasions they met.

Kariuki, who works in a hotel in Naivasha and is a childhood friend of Tecra, said he remembers a trip they went together to Mt Kenya region and spent some three days together, where the two had heated arguments and had to be separated by her driver, a Mr Cheruiyot.

The witness said Lali would get agitated or uncomfortable whenever a friend of Tecra would join their table.

“Before they picked me (up), I could tell they had had an argument. On reaching the venue, I left them there in the car. A few minutes later, I saw Tecra and Omar in the company of Cheruiyot. It appears things had cooled down but Omar isolated himself," he said.

Mr Lali, he said, would eventually join their table before they had another argument.

“I am not sure whether it was about jealousy. It was the first time I saw Omar grab Roy, a friend and Tecra intervened,” he said.

The following day, the witness said, she asked her what was going on and she opened up to him, saying they had been having a lot of arguments.

Most of the time, he said, the argument centered on why Lali was not listening to her or why he did not want anybody around her.

“She also told me that a week or two they had been on a trip to Tanzania where Omar got into a terrible argument with her brother, which almost led into a fight,” he said.

The working relationship with the driver and ties with her friends, he said, changed when he came into her life.

Mr Lali was arraigned before the High Court in Garsen to face a charge of murder but the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) withdrew the case and ordered an inquest into her death. The hearing continues today.  BY DAILY NATION