{"id":913776,"date":"2022-01-06T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/06\/man-charged-with-killing-his-father-fails-to-take-plea\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T00:01:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T00:01:54","slug":"man-charged-with-killing-his-father-fails-to-take-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/man-charged-with-killing-his-father-fails-to-take-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with killing his father fails to take plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"art-img row mx-md-0\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cbwhelito0gvs061d5c146ad83c.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid w-100\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"bg-light mb-3 p-3 row mx-md-0\">\n<p><strong>28-year-old Abdul Majid Nagib in Mombasa law courts yesterday with his lawyer Lawrence Obonyo. Nagib was detained for 12 days over the killing and mutilation of his 69-year-old Nagis Abdalah Fateh, a retired UAE military officer.<\/strong> [Joackim Bwana, Standard]\n<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"card-text\">A man suspected to have killed his father failed to take plea in court due to an unsigned psychiatric report.\n<\/p>\n<p>It is a situation that saw High Court judge\u00a0Ann Ong\u2019injo defer the plea to January 12 in order to give the prosecution time to have the document on\u00a0Abdul Nagib&#8217;s mental status signed by the psychiatrist who prepared it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The charges will be read to you but you will remain silent. You will plead to the charges once the psychiatrist report is signed,&#8221; said Justice Ong&#8217;injo.\n<\/p>\n<p>Nagib is suspected to have murdered Nagis Abdallah Fateh, 69, a retired military officer who served in United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n<p>State prosecutor Theresa Mwangeka had on Tuesday told the courts that Nagib\u2019s psychiatrist report proved he was fit to stand trial.\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"t8e1dwcXiEc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Murder suspect remanded: Man accused of killing and dismembering fathers body\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t8e1dwcXiEc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe psychiatrist report of the suspect indicates he is fit to plead to murder charges. It is ready only awaiting signing before he can plead to the murder charges,\u201d said Mwangeka. <\/p>\n<p>Nagib is accused of killing his father on December 17, last year, at their Bondeni home in Mombasa County.\n<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested at a hideout in Juja, Kiambu County, on December 20.\n<\/p>\n<p>When the family questioned Nagib about the whereabouts of his father, he said he had gone to his farm at Mavueni in Kilifi County.\n<\/p>\n<p>However, neighbours at Mavueni confirmed that they had not spotted the old man at his farm.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to a sworn affidavit by investigation officer Stephen Sachita, Nagib was arrested in Juja in Kiambu County at his girlfriend&#8217;s house. <\/p>\n<p>Nagib&#8217;s lawyer Lawrence Obonyo said that his client\u2019s life was in danger because his family members were baying for his blood.\n<\/p>\n<p>Obonyo opposed Nagib being detained at Central Police Station saying it was near the scene of the crime.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/article\/2001433541\/man-charged-with-killing-his-father-fails-to-take-plea\">Source: The Standard Media Kenya<\/a> <a \"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28-year-old Abdul Majid Nagib in Mombasa law courts yesterday with his lawyer Lawrence Obonyo. Nagib was detained for 12 days over the killing and mutilation of his 69-year-old Nagis Abdalah Fateh, a retired UAE military officer. [Joackim Bwana, Standard] A man suspected to have killed his father failed to take plea in court due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}