Ex-governor convicted of murdering a pregnant student in Kenya

Obado, governor of Migori county at the time, and two co-accused were convicted on Thursday of arranging the killing.

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.

Former Kenyan county governor Okoth Obado has been found guilty of murdering a pregnant 26-year-old university student with whom he had been having an affair.