Ex-governor convicted of murdering a pregnant student in Kenya
During the trial, the prosecution called 42 witnesses and leant heavily on circumstantial evidence to prove that the ex-governor and his two co-accused had worked together to arrange Otieno's killing, Kenya's Star newspaper reports.
News of her murder gripped Kenyans at the time after a journalist with the Nation Media Group, Barack Oduor, said Otieno had contacted him about her affair with the then-governor.
Two days later Otieno's body was discovered with evidence that she may have been raped, and stabbed in the neck, abdomen and back.
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