Senior prosecutor ignores police summon over wife battering
Senior Principal Prosecution Counsel Fredrick Ashimosi and Purity Murithi on their wedding day. PHOTO | COUTESY
What you need to know:
- His wife told the Nation.co.ke that Mr Ashimosi, who they have been married for 15 years, has been assaulting her to the extent of losing two of her teeth during one of the assault episodes.
- A medical report from the St Veronica Health Centre indicates that she sustained deep cut injuries on her hand and neck. She also had a memory lapse and was bleeding profusely.
A senior prosecutor accused of assaulting his wife and inflicting bodily harm on her on Sunday has not honoured summons to the police station.
Senior Principal Prosecution Counsel, Fredrick Ashimosi allegedly assaulted Purity Murithi Ashimosi early on Sunday Morning at their home in Buruburu Estate.
She reported the matter to the Buruburu Police Station under the OB Number; 4/13/03/08/16 prompting the police to summon the counsel to the police station.
By 3pm on Thursday, the lawyer who has been prosecuting several high profile cases had not honoured the summons and the police had not arrested him.
His wife told the Nation.co.ke that Mr Ashimosi, who they have been married for 15 years, has been assaulting her to the extent of losing two of her teeth during one of the assault episodes.
“I have been reporting these cases to police stations but he keeps telling me that nothing will happen to him because he is a high ranking prosecutor,” his wife said.
She said her husband has assaulted her in the presence of their two children and that in the latest incident on Sunday, he cleaned blood and broken furniture before the police arrived.
“He arrived home late at night and I was preparing to go to church, some church members started calling me to inquire where I was because we were all supposed to travel using my car and he picked them.
“That is when he started arguing and he became violent. He started by slapping me then punching me, before pushing me to a glass table which broke as a result and hurt me,” she said.
Purity Murithi Ashimosi during the interview at Nation Centre on March 17, 2016. She claimed her husband, a senior state prosecutor has been assaulting her. PHOTO | ROBERT NGUGI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
A medical report from the St Veronica Health Centre indicates that she sustained deep cut injuries on her hand and neck. She also had a memory lapse and was bleeding profusely.
Police records at the Buruburu Police station show that she had reported several incidents of domestic violence against her lawyer husband since April 2008.
When contacted on phone, the lawyer said he had been wrongfully accused and that he was long separated from her.
On further scrutiny though, the lawyer admitted that there was a fight at the house but it was occasioned by a flower vessel that she threw at him while he was parking in preparation for a journey to Rift Valley.
“I have never assaulted her and the reason I moved out of the house is because I realised that she had another man,” Mr Ashimosi said.
Buruburu OCS Johnstone Matoke has given Mr Ashimosi until 10am on Friday to appear at the Police Station, failure to which he will be sought and arrested.
“He has been summoned here severally but has failed to show up and so if he does not come by tomorrow, I will have him arrested,” Mr Matoke said on Thursday.
