NAIROBI, Kenya — Prosecutors on Wednesday told the High Court that a Nairobi man already linked to three killings in October 2024 murdered his girlfriend a week later, mutilated and boiled parts of her body, and tried to dump the remains at Lang’ata Cemetery.
Appearing before Lady Justice Margaret Muigai on Dec. 3, 2025, Senior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions Gikui Gichui said Hashim Dagane Muhumed — also known as Hashim Mohamed Khalif — killed Deka Abdi Noor Gorane on the night of Oct. 29–30, 2024, inside Valley Heights Apartments in the Lavington area of Nairobi County.
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The prosecution alleges Hashim, seeking to conceal evidence of killings that occurred the night of Oct. 21 and into Oct. 22, 2024, turned on Deka, his girlfriend, and “killed her brutally.” Gichui told the court that after the murder, Hashim boiled Deka’s body parts, put them in a black wastepaper bag and later attempted to dispose of the remains at the cemetery.
“The accused girlfriend, Deka Abdi Noor Gorane, was the fourth victim whose body was mutilated, boiled, and the remains dumped at Lang’ata Cemetery,” Gichui said.
Corporal Lawrence Kamau, a CCTV expert, walked the court through hours of surveillance footage he said captured key movements before and after the earlier killings and Deka’s death. Kamau testified that video from Sixth Avenue in Parklands showed a small car at 04:36:58 on Oct. 22, 2024, reversing and running over an object later identified as a human body.
Footage from the same morning showed the vehicle at Valley View Apartments in Parklands at 04:37:11, Kamau said. A man in a white shirt and black trousers and a woman in a blue garment are seen walking together toward the far left of the camera’s view. Minutes later, at 04:40:06, the man reappears alone, retracing his route. At 05:07:18, the small grey car is captured pulling up to the building. “The man alights, enters, and returns at 05:08:17,” Kamau told the court. “At 05:08:21, the lady in the blue garment enters from the passenger’s seat at 05:08:39, after which the car reverses and departs via the same road.”
Turning to the days surrounding Deka’s killing, Kamau said surveillance from Valley Heights Apartments shows Deka in a maroon garment leaving her unit on Oct. 29 at 09:19 and heading toward the lift. Nearby supermarket footage from Quick Mart Lavington recorded her entering at 09:19 and making a payment at 09:37. At 10:03:49, she is seen returning to the apartment carrying a Quick Mart shopping bag and a small black bag marked with red or pink writing.
Two days later, on Oct. 31 at 05:59:50, cameras in the Valley Heights lift lobby captured Hashim wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and blue trousers while carrying two black bags, Kamau testified — a small one in his left hand and a larger one in his right. The smaller bag resembled the one Deka brought back from Quick Mart on Oct. 29, he said.
“My lady, we observed the man closely inspecting the items he was carrying while waiting at the lift area,” Kamau told the court.
Prosecutors say the surveillance trail, tied to vehicle movements and shopping records, places the accused with the victim and links him to the disposal of remains days later. Hashim has been implicated by investigators in three killings on Oct. 21–22, 2024, and is now accused in Deka’s death a week later in Lavington.
The defense position was not immediately presented in Wednesday’s session. The hearing before Justice Muigai continues as the court weighs the admissibility and probative value of the CCTV evidence and other materials tendered by the prosecution.
By Ali Musa
Axadle Times international–Monitoring.
