Kenya’s High Court acquitted a British aristocrat on Thursday of smuggling cocaine in a shipment of sugar, ending a high-profile case that ...
NAIROBI: Kenya’s High Court acquitted a British aristocrat on Thursday of smuggling cocaine in a shipment of sugar, ending a high-profile case that captured public interest in how the justice system would treat the scion of a prominent family.
"The court was in essence directing a prosecution against accused persons against the wish of the prosecution, without a complainant and a prosecutor," High Court Judge Luka Kimaru wrote in Thursday's ruling dismissing the case. During the trial the defence team presented a letter from the US Drug Enforcement Administration stating that Marrian, 33, could have had no knowledge that the drugs were stashed in a shipment which was en route from Brazil to Uganda.The grandson of the sixth Earl of Cawdor, Marrian grew up in Kenya, where his grandfather was a minister just after the former British colony became independent in 1963.
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