Ex-governor convicted of murdering a pregnant student in Kenya

Obado "orchestrated a plot to eliminate Otieno", Judge Cecilia Githua said reading out her ruling, which was broadcast live on television.He "supplied motive, instigation and funds to finance the criminal enterprise".Obado's former personal assistant Michael Oyamo "facilitated execution" and former county clerk Caspal Obiero "ensured logistical support and concealment to avoid detection of the offence", the judge added.The three are now in custody ahead of the sentencing."We are happy with the conviction. We believe that justice has at last been served to Sharon," a lawyer for the victim's family said.News of her murder gripped Kenyans at the time after a journalist with the Nation Media Group, Barack Oduor, said Otieno had contacted him about her affair with the then-governor.The two met and were then kidnapped but Oduor said he managed to escape from the speeding car.Two days later Otieno's body was discovered with evidence that she may have been raped, and stabbed in the neck, abdomen and back.The journalist's eyewitness account of the abduction became a crucial lead in the investigation.The police traced the vehicle used by the abductors.Its tracking device had been deactivated...