BY BERNARD MOMANYI
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| null     1/1 Samuel Wanjiru/File NAIROBI, Kenya, June 2 - Fallen Olympic marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru can now be buried after the High Court in Nakuru lifted orders barring his interment. Justice Anyara Emukule ruled that there was no valid legal reason for extension of orders to keep the body after a post-mortem on Wanjiru's body was done on Friday. The court said DNA samples had also been taken from the body to confirm the paternity of an unborn child by Judy Wambui who is claiming to be a wife of the late athletics hero. Wanjiru's mother Hannah Wanjiru got the orders after moving to court accusing her daughter-in-law of failing to involve her in the funeral plans. She accused Njeri of holding burial plan meetings at her son's home without her knowledge. Lawyer Wilfred Konosi appearing for Hannah had sought an extension of the order arguing the cause of the marathoner's death was not clear after pathologists failed to agree on Wednesday. He also told the court that her client wanted Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere to order an independent investigation into the death accusing Nyahururu police of complicity. Mr Konosi said local police had failed explain who broke the bedroom door immediately after the marathoner plunged to his death. He also said no statement has been taken from police officers who were among the first people to arrive at the scene after the incident. Justice Emukule also ruled that bereaved parties were now at liberty to make their complaints on cause of death to the police. The court also questioned why the body was embalmed before a post-mortem had been conducted. Chief Government Pathologist Dr Moses Njue who led two independent doctors in conducting the autopsy at the Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi told journalists they had concluded that he died of a blunt injury to the head. "The cause of death is a blunt injury on the head," Dr Njue said without elaborating. "What we now want to establish is the height between the balcony where is said to have fallen and the ground where he landed." The late Wanjiru died in hospital after he sustained injuries in a fall from his balcony following a domestic quarrel with his wife Trizah who caught him red-handed with another woman in bed. A guard and the woman Wanjiru had been accused of taking home on the fateful night told police that the deceased fell while trying to reach out to his wife who had left the home to go and inform the police and neighbours. A preliminary police report of the investigations revealed he died after committing suicide by jumping off the balcony but Nyandarua police chief Jasper Ombati has since insisted that the exact cause of the death and the circumstances that led to it will only be established once the investigations are finalised. Follow us on TWITTER@CapitalFM_Kenya and the author on http://twitter.com/#!/momanyibernard |
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