The key suspect in the murder of Tob Cohen, Sarah Wairimu Kamotho, has been charged with the offenses of giving false information to a police officer and swearing a false affidavit regarding the alleged loss of her passport, No. BK043532.

Her arraignment is the culmination of investigations conducted by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), where it was established that Wairimu knowingly provided false information to the officer in charge of the station, claiming that her passport No. BK043532 was lost. This prompted the officer to issue her with a police abstract based on her false report.

Further investigations revealed that, on the same day, Wairimu proceeded to Pamki House in Nyeri Town, where she appeared before Advocate Muchiri wa Gathoni and swore a false affidavit claiming that her passport was lost.

Armed with the two documents, she then proceeded to the Immigration Department in Nairobi, where she applied for another passport, despite knowing that her old one was the subject of investigations and was in the custody of DCI officers probing the murder of her husband, the late Tob Cohen.

Upon perusal of the investigation file and approval of the two charges by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), Wairimu was presented before Principal Magistrate Zainab Abdul at the Kibera Law Courts, where she denied the charges and was remanded at Lang’ata Women’s Prison.

The case is scheduled for mention on 25th November 2025 for a pretrial conference.