Nyeri Magistrate Pauline Maisy Chesang, who was arrested following links to the murder of her late husband Robert Chesang, made a desperate plea to avoid sharing a prison with inmates she had sentenced.
Appearing at a court in Machakos on Tuesday, the defendant disclosed that she feared of her life pending her detainment at Machakos G.K Prison.
The suspect revealed that she was scared of being singled out and attacked by inmates who had a bone to pick with her following her sentences.
In the request, Ms Chesang requested to be detained at Athi River Police Station where she felt that her personal safety would be guaranteed.
“If she must be remanded, I pray that she be held at Athi River Police Station and not Machakos where she is likely to encounter inmates whom she might have sentenced while serving in some stations,” her lawyer stated.
Machakos Court Deputy Registrar K. Kenei granted her petition and ordered her detention at the station.
A court had previously turned down her request to be released on grounds of having served diligently as a magistrate on the bench.
In the ruling, the judge made it clear that she was in court as an ordinary suspect and not in the capacity of a magistrate.
Ms Chesang and her co-accused were further asked to subject themselves for mental examination at Mathari Hospital in under two weeks.
The suspect was accused, alongside Richard Moru, Lawrence Lempesi and Peter Maundu, of the brutal murder of her husband.
Reports following investigations stated that the late lawyer was tortured extensively before being shot seven times from point blank range.
Ms Chesang made the request through her lawyer, Assa Nyakundi, claiming that the Machakos prison posed a serious risk to her life.
She went on to explain that the Machakos prison housed numerous inmates she had convicted during her time on the bench.