A Nairobi court has acquitted former Laikipia East MP Antony Mutahi Kimaru in a case where he was charged with stealing a title deed of a parcel of land valued at Sh18.5 million in 2016.

Upon acquitting him, Milimani Chief Magistrate Bernard Ochoi said the prosecution did not prove beyond reasonable doubt that the former legislator committed the offences he was charged with.

“I hereby acquit the accused person under section 215 of the criminal procedure code since the prosecution has failed to prove the charges before this court,” the magistrate said.

Mutahi was accused of stealing the title deed of a parcel of land LR NO. 10422/13 located in Nanyuki Township and valued at Sh18.5 million on August 5, 2016 the property of Livia Le Poer Trench. He was accused of stealing the land document from the Ministry of Lands at Ardhi House in Nairobi.

The document was in the custody of George Oraro Odinga and David Morton Silverstein, the executors of the estate of the late Livia Lopoer Trench.

He also faced charges of forgery, making false document and obtaining land registration fraudulently.