Kenyan court convicts Venezuelan diplomat of murder

A Kenyan court on Wednesday convicted Dwight Sagaray, a Venezuelan diplomat, guilty of killing the Latin American nation's acting ambassador at her home in a posh Nairobi neighborhood ten years earlier.

According to Reuters, Judge Roselyn Korir's decision held Sagaray, the first secretary at the embassy, responsible for the murder of Olga Fonseca in July 2012.

The court also ruled against three Kenyan citizens who had been prosecuted alongside Sagaray, claiming that they had collaborated on the murderous scheme.

The court ordered that the arrest warrant for a second suspect, who fled the scene after the murder, should stand.

The court determined that Sagaray might face charges for the murder because he was not protected by diplomatic immunity after Venezuela revoked it in the wake of the atrocity.

Less than two weeks after arriving in Nairobi, Fonseca was discovered dead in her bedroom, having been strangled. This came after the previous ambassador abruptly left the country after being accused of sexual harassment by his domestic staff.

The court decided that the Venezuelan envoy, who had been in charge of the mission before Fonseca's arrival, was enraged by her presence because he wanted to keep administering the embassy.

According to Korir, there is evidence that before Fonseca was slain, he attempted to obstruct her ability to succeed him as the head of the embassy in order to be the primary beneficiary of the crime.

The judge stated that Sagaray and his accomplice will be sentenced later.

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