Government pathologist Bernard Midia has confirmed that the body of Albert Omondi Ojwang was subjected to assault and it also suffered multiple organ injuries.
“When we examined … the pattern of the injury, especially on the trauma I found on the head…. Hitting against a blunt substance like a wall would have a pattern. But the bleeds that we found on the scalp…on the skin of the head were spaced, including on the face, sides of the head, and the back of the head,” he told reporters outside the City Mortuary.
Thus the pathologist, in one swoop, discounted an earlier theory that the deceased took his own life by butting his head on a wall.
Bernard Midia performed the autopsy in the presence of the family representative Mutuma Zambezi who also dismissed the possibility of Ojwang’ injuring himself.
“When we tie up together with other injuries that are well spread on parts of the body … including the upper limbs and the trunk … Then this is unlikely to be self-inflicted injury,” Midia told the media.
The post-mortem findings now sharply contradict an earlier police report that stated Ojwang could have died by butting his head on the wall of a cell at Central Police Station.
The finding also brings into question why there were initial attempts at cover-up of events surrounding the teacher’s death.
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