{"id":215486,"date":"2025-12-02T09:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-seven-daystar-university-students-freed-after-cctv-clears-them-in-death-of-colleague\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:57:18","slug":"kenya-seven-daystar-university-students-freed-after-cctv-clears-them-in-death-of-colleague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-seven-daystar-university-students-freed-after-cctv-clears-them-in-death-of-colleague\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Seven Daystar University Students Freed After CCTV Clears Them in Death of Colleague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Seven Daystar University students previously linked to the death of a 23-year-old fellow student, Lorna Kathambi Karani, have been released after CCTV footage conclusively showed she fell while attempting to jump between balconies at Harmony Plaza Apartments in Ngara, Nairobi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The new evidence presented at the Milimani Law Courts on Monday cleared the students of any criminal involvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) has now ordered a public inquest, with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512020117.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Seven Daystar University students previously linked to the death of a 23-year-old fellow student, Lorna Kathambi Karani, have been released after CCTV footage conclusively showed she fell while attempting to jump between balconies at Harmony Plaza Apartments in Ngara, Nairobi. The new evidence presented at the Milimani Law Courts on Monday cleared the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":215487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,18771,11223,16556,53013,6974,9536,4688,430,257,254,6695,5148],"class_list":["post-215486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cctv","tag-clears","tag-colleague","tag-daystar","tag-death","tag-freed","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-students","tag-university"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}