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Former MP to be probed afresh for alleged plot to kill business rival


Director of Public Prosecutions has ordered a fresh probe against former assistant minister Betty Tett for allegedly enlisting the services of a hitman to murder a business rival.

Mr Keriako Tobiko, in a letter dated January 25, directed the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Ndegwa Muhoro to appoint a new team of investigators to re-look the matter and return the file in 21 days.

“In light of the contents of the aforementioned letter and the accompanying documentation, I do therefore direct that this matter be re-investigated by a new team of investigators. The re-investigation to be completed and the resultant file(s) submitted to this office for perusal and appropriate directions within 21 days,” said the letter.

REVIEW DECISION

The DPP’s letter comes in the wake of a letter from lawyer Paul Mwangi and Company Advocates, the firm representing the assistant minister’s business rival Mr Andrew White, requesting for a review and a reconsideration of an earlier decision not to charge the former Westlands MP with conspiracy to murder.

The prosecutor in the case had claimed that the self-confessed hitman, John Linus Wachira, had wrongly implicated Mrs Tett.

Mr Wachira was subsequently charged with demanding money with menaces and giving false information to the police.

Mr White, through his new legal team has pleaded for a review of the case, alleging that there is new evidence from private investigators and a whistle-blower linking Mrs Tett and Mr Wachira to the murder conspiracy.

Mr White also claims to have obtained telephone records of supposed conversation between Mrs Tett and Mr Wachira that proves the association between the former MP and the hitman.