{"id":143397,"date":"2026-06-08T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kmtc-student-murder-nyeri-court-to-rule-on-admissibility-of-forensic-report\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T12:02:54","slug":"kmtc-student-murder-nyeri-court-to-rule-on-admissibility-of-forensic-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kmtc-student-murder-nyeri-court-to-rule-on-admissibility-of-forensic-report\/","title":{"rendered":"KMTC student murder: Nyeri court to rule on admissibility of forensic report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court in Nyeri is set to rule on June 25, 2026, on whether a forensic report filed in the murder case of the late Sheila Chebet, a student at Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) Nyeri Campus, will be admitted as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Sheila\u2019s body was found in Karatina on March 28, 2026, prompting investigations that led to the arrest and prosecution of a prime suspect.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the prosecution presented the forensic report before Magistrate Kizito Magare as part of its evidence. The accused, Vincent Bett, a fourth-year university student in Karatina, is facing murder charges in connection with Sheila\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The court will determine the admissibility of the forensic report when it delivers its ruling later this month.<\/p>\n<p>The substantive hearing of the murder case has been scheduled for October 27, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/kmtc-student-murder-nyeri-court-to-rule-on-admissibility-of-forensic-report\/\">KMTC student murder: Nyeri court to rule on admissibility of forensic report<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Court in Nyeri is set to rule on June 25, 2026, on whether a forensic report filed in the murder case of the late Sheila Chebet, a student at Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) Nyeri Campus, will be admitted as evidence. Sheila\u2019s body was found in Karatina on March 28, 2026, prompting investigations [&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-143397","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\/143397","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=143397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}