Police forcing victim of defilement to settle out of court, court told

Patrick Mwangi Waititu at the Shanzu Law Court in Mombasa County where he denied defiling and committing indecent act with a minor aged 17years. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

A suspect charged with defilement is using police officers and other proxies to threaten the victim's family to agree to an out-of-court settlement, a court was told yesterday.

The victim's advocate, Duncan Osoro, told Shanzu Law Court that he had phone numbers of the police officers and other people threatening the victim's elder sister to withdraw the case.