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David Macharia and Wanjiru Macharia<\/p>\n

7 June 2011<\/p>\n

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Nairobi \u2014 The mother of marathoner Samuel Wanjiru on Tuesday moved to the High Court in Nakuru for a second time seeking orders to stop his burial.<\/p>\n

Ms Hannah Wanjiru sought orders restraining her daughter-in-law, Terezah Njeri, or her agents from removing the athlete’s body from Lee Funeral Home in Nairobi until investigations into the cause of her son’s death were concluded.<\/p>\n

Ms Wanjiru, who was represented by lawyer Gordon Ogolla, asked the court to review its unilateral orders of June 2 discharging a previous order stopping the burial.<\/p>\n

Mr Ogolla asked Mr Justice William Ouko to stop the burial and to certify the plea as urgent since Ms Njeri, her friends, relatives and “a self-imposed” burial committee were planning to bury Wanjiru on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Mr Justice Anyara Emukule had granted a 14-day interim order barring Ms Njeri from burying her husband until investigations were over.<\/p>\n

He, however, lifted the injunction after the post-mortem examination, saying there were no legal reasons to stop the ceremony.<\/p>\n

Mr Ogolla said the post-mortem examination showed fresh evidence which was not within the knowledge of his client when she made the earlier application.<\/p>\n

“There has emerged a theory that the deceased was murdered a fact that has caused hostility between my client and the respondent further complicating the relationship between Ms Wanjiru and her daughter-in-law,” he said.<\/p>\n

In her affidavit, Ms Wanjiru said the post-mortem examination showed her son died from injuries inflicted by a blunt object to the back of his head.<\/p>\n

Mr Justice Ouko certified the matter as urgent but declined to review the orders issued by judge Emukule. He said Mr Justice Emukule would hear the application on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the court has allowed Mr Elijah Chebon — the man claiming to be marathon hero Samuel Wanjiru’s biological father — to use samples from the athlete’s body to prove his paternity claim.<\/p>\n

Mr Chebon had asked the court to order that he takes samples from the body for a DNA analysis.<\/p>\n

The court observed that samples had been removed following a request by one Ms Judy Wambui, who claims to be Wanjiru’s other wife, and ordered that Mr Chebon uses the same for his tests.<\/p>\n

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