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Murder case: Lecturer's kin questioned over contradictory eulogy

Lawyer asks why family had written in Jepchumba’s eulogy that she accidentally drowned yet they are pursuing a murder case against Jepchumba’s lover Godfrey Kangogo.

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The family of the Rift Valley Institute lecturer allegedly murdered by her boyfriend has been grilled over a eulogy produced in court. Joshua Toroitich, a close relative to Irene Jepchumba (deceased), testified that the eulogy prepared by the family contradicted a police report on how she died. While the family has pursued a murder case against Jepchumba’s lover Godfrey Kangogo, the eulogy they allegedly wrote read that her death was accidental.

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