Mombasa: Suspects re-charged
07/08/2003 11:15  - (SA)  

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Nairobi - Five suspects detained over the bombing of a hotel in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa were remanded on Thursday after they saw their charges dropped by a lower court but then filed anew before a High Court judge.

The suspects, who pleaded not guilty to 15 counts of murder, were charged afresh before High Court Judge Tom Mbaluto, soon after a magistrate in a lower court order their release following the prosecutor's decision to drop charges.

Last month, the judiciary changed its rules of procedure, removing jurisdiction over murder cases from the magistrates' courts.

Murder suspects can now only stand trial before High Court judges.

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