Jacque became a suspect under the law that states that everyone is a party to an offence who actually commits it, does anything to aid any person to commit it or abets any person in committing it.
“Where two or more persons form an intention in common to carry out an unlawful purpose and to assist each other therein and any one of them, in carrying out the common purpose, commits an offence, each of them who knew or ought to have known that the commission of the offence would be a probable consequence of carrying out the common purpose is a party to that offence,” a police officer told The Standard.
“An accessory after the fact to an offence is one who, knowing that a person has been a party to the offence, receives, comforts or assists that person for the purpose of enabling that person to escape,” said the officer citing the law.
After a judge decreed she be incarcerated at the Langata Women's prison, police officer visited her to interrogate her further. She was dressed in their traditional striped black and white uniform that every inmate receives.
Reports by police indicate that Jacque was in low spirits when police visited her and did not want to talk.
In the recent past, Jacque through her lawyer Katwe Kigen has complained about these interrogations.
Katwe told a judge in court, "We would also like to say that over that period, there be no more recording of statements or attempts to extract content from the respondent in the absence of her counsel."
He continued, " And I say this your honour because my client has complained that she was under a lot of pressure to admit that she knows one Monicah Kimani. When she emphatically said that she doesn't know her."
Kigen expressed his reservations further, "As her counselor, I am worried that the pressure and incarceration could be in part because she refused to acknowledge knowing her."
And lastly the lawyer made prayers to the judge to allow Jacque to be placed in a "fair environment".
"When she was under incarceration, people of doubtful circumstances were placed with her in the same incarceration, who kept inquiring from her what she knows about the investigators and what she knows about this case.
Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji said he had independently reviewed the evidence so far on record before deciding to charge Jacque Maribe and Joseph 'Jowie' Irungu.
