DCI wants Hashim Dagane, suspect in murder of four Eastleigh women, denied bond
The suspect, who fraudulently acquired a Kenyan national identity card, remains a pre-trial remandee at the Nairobi Area Remand and Allocation Prison.
Hashim Dagane Muhumed alias Hashim Mohamed Khalif, a Somali of Ethiopian origin, has denied killing four Eastleigh women in October last year.
At the same time, detectives in the case have urged the court not to free him on bond.
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Hashim was charged with the murder of Dahab Daud Said alias Waris, who was killed in Kyumbi, in Machakos County on the night of October 21. He was also accused of killing Dahab's relatives Amina Abdirashid Dhahir and Musayba Abdi Mohamed in Parklands, Nairobi on the same date.
The suspect was also charged with the murder of a fourth victim, Deka Abdinoor Gorane, at a short-stay rental apartment in Lavington, Nairobi between October 29 and 31, 2024.
"On the night of October 29 and October 30, 2024, at the Veley Heights Apartment, Lavington area within Nairobi County, (he) murdered Deka Abdo Noor Gorane," the charge sheet reads.
The deceased, the last to be allegedly killed by the suspect in the series of murders, had been reported missing at the California Police Station in Eastleigh before her dismembered body parts were found dumped at the Lang’ata cemetery on November 1, 2024.
It was established that she had lived with the suspect for a week before he allegedly murdered her.
On the run
The deceased had gone missing after she left her family to live with the suspect, who was on the run after he allegedly killed the three others.
Hashim, who appeared in court virtually from the Nairobi Area Remand and Allocation Prison, denied the charges before High Court Judge Kanyi Kimondo.
The suspect, who fraudulently acquired a Kenyan national identity card, now remains a pre-trial remandee in the detention facility. Through an advocate, he pleaded for lenient bail and bond terms.
The Homicide Unit of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) established that Hashim is a Somali national identified as Hashim Mohamed Khalif according to his passport but had fraudulently acquired registration as a Kenyan.
Senior Prosecution Counsel Millicent Kiringia said the prosecution is opposing his release on bond and that an affidavit would be filed later.
Martin Nyunguto, the head of the DCI Homicide Unit, and his team will prepare an affidavit containing the reasons for opposing the release of the suspect on bond before the same is filed in court by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP).
Justice Kimondo ordered the ODPP to file the affidavit in seven days and that Hashim must respond to the application before February 11 when the matter will be mentioned.
Taxi driver Jared Mong’are, who had been arrested in connection to Deka’s murder, was discharged without charges but his car will be detained at the DCI headquarters as an exhibit in the case.
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