Maxine Wahome’s trial over Assad Khan’s death resumes

 

Maxine Wahome and the late rally driver Assad Khan

Rally race driver Maxine Wahome's is set to appear at the High Court Today.

She is the main suspect in the alleged murder of her Rally Driver boyfriend Assad Khan.

The last time the matter was in court, a video clip was played showing an emotional Wahome narrating to her father and detectives how she was assaulted by her late lover Assad Khan before he died.

From the clip, Wahome is heard crying saying "Daddy, he cut himself. He kicked the window. I was the one who was beaten up."

The clip is part of the evidence relied on by the defense counsels.

It was introduced when one of the prosecution witnesses told the court that he was the one who went to Kileleshwa police station and came with the officers to Assad’s house after finding him lying in a pool of blood.

Samuel Kimani told trial Judge Lillian Mutende that Assad was alive before he went to seek help from the police.

"He was lying there, mumbling. I heard him say, 'babe" the witness said.

Samuel Kimani was a neighbor to Assad and also the Chairman of the Kileleshwa Preston Court Residents Association.

He described Assad as a quiet person "but a totally different character when you get to know the other side of him".

On occasion, the guards had told him of violent incidents in Assad’s house.

"Not once, not twice but multiple times. For the 10 years I've stayed there. The nature of the fracas has always involved a woman and him," Kimani said.

BY SUSAN MUHINDI