Nairobi, Feb. 13 -- Brian Kassaine is a name that came up a lot during the investigations into the murder of Monica Kimani, a woman who was killed in her apartment in Kilimani Estate, Nairobi County.

In an account of a series of events that took place after the murder, for which Mr Joseph Irungu alias Jowie, was found guilty, Brian Lesalon Kasaine tells how a name he shared with one of the suspects in the brutal murder made his life a mystery for weeks.

At the time, detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) were under immense pressure to ensure they solved the murder of Monica Kimani, who died just a day after landing in the country from South Sudan, where she was based and doing business with her family.

She had...