{"id":109429,"date":"2025-02-03T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/court-denies-sarah-cohen-bail-orders-her-to-remain-in-custody\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:04:02","slug":"court-denies-sarah-cohen-bail-orders-her-to-remain-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/court-denies-sarah-cohen-bail-orders-her-to-remain-in-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Court denies Sarah Cohen bail, orders her to remain in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The High Court has ruled that Sarah Cohen will remain in custody until February 18 when a ruling on her bail application will be delivered.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Cohen, the widow of Tob Cohen, a former CEO of Philips Electronics East Africa, was previously accused of his murder after his body was discovered in a septic tank at their Kitisuru home in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, in 2022, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) withdrew the murder charges against her and her co-accused, Peter Karanja.<\/p>\n<p>During the court hearing on Monday, the DPP opposed Cohen\u2019s release on bail, arguing that two protected witnesses had yet to testify and that releasing her could compromise the case.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sarah\u2019s defense team opposed the decision arguing that denying her bail infringed on her constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/in-courts-today-masengeli-to-appear-in-court-ruling-on-cohen-death-inquest\/\">https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/in-courts-today-masengeli-to-appear-in-court-ruling-on-cohen-death-inquest\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/court-denies-sarah-cohen-bail-orders-her-to-remain-in-custody\/\">Court denies Sarah Cohen bail, orders her to remain in custody<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court has ruled that Sarah Cohen will remain in custody until February 18 when a ruling on her bail application will be delivered. Sarah Cohen, the widow of Tob Cohen, a former CEO of Philips Electronics East Africa, was previously accused of his murder after his body was discovered in a septic tank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}