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Police on Monday morning fired a bullet at the tyre of a vehicle belonging to a Kenyan judge, believing he was carjacked on Sunday night after his wife filed a missing person’s report in Nairobi.
On Sunday 10pm, the judge's wife called her husband on phone, and he informed her that he was on his way home. The couple lives in Nairobi’s posh neighbourhood in Hurlingham.
Subsequent phone calls by the judge's wife to him were not picked, forcing her to file a missing person’s report at Kilimani Police Station at 4:30am Monday.
The distressed woman told police that her son monitored the movements of his father’s vehicle via a GPS tracker, and realised that the movements were “strange”.
A swift mission to rescue the judge began, and on Monday morning, his vehicle was spotted in the posh Kileleshwa neighbourhood.
Believing the judge was under the control of his abductors, police fired a bullet at the rear right tyre in a bid to force the vehicle, a black Toyota Harrier, to a halt.
“The vehicle had only one passenger on board, who was very drunk,” says a part of the police report.
The judge refuted reports that he was carjacked.
Police say no one was injured in the incident.
The judge’s vehicle was towed to Kilimani Police Station.
