Policeman ‘stole suspect’s phone’

The late Alexander Monson's mother, Hillary Monson, and a relative follow proceedings of the inquest at the Mombasa Law Courts yesterday. [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard]

A police officer stole a cellphone and money seized from British aristocrat Alexander Monson after he was arrested and locked up at Diani Police Station, a judicial inquest has heard.

An officer on the reporting desk at the station when Alexander was brought in in the wee hours of May 19, 2012, claimed that his colleague, a Constable Baraka, stole the mobile phone and Sh650 from where they were stored after the aristocrat was detained.