Albert Ojwang' died from head injuries, neck compression- Postmortem

Albert Ojwang', who died in custody at the Central Police Station in Nairobi, sustained multiple injuries to his body.

During a media briefing from City Mortuary on Tuesday, Government pathologist Bernard Midia clarified that Ojwang' did not hit himself against the wall, contrary to what was initially reported in a police statement.

"When we examined … the pattern of the injury, especially on the trauma I found on the head…. Hitting against a blunt substance like a wall would have a pattern," he said.

After completing the autopsy on Tuesday, Midia explained that if Ojwang' had injured himself by hitting the wall, there would have been frontal bleeding on the head.

"But the bleeds that we found on the scalp…on the skin of the head were spaced, including on the face, sides of the head, and the back of the head," he noted.

The pathologist, who was assisted by the family’s representative Mutuma Zambezi, dismissed the possibility that Ojwang' inflicted the injuries himself.

"There were also multiple soft tissue injuries spread all over the body, including the head, neck, upper limbs and the trunk and lower limbs... these were injuries that were externally inflicted," Midia stated.

"When we tie up together with other injuries that are well spread on parts of the body … including the upper limbs and the trunk … Then this is unlikely to be self-inflicted injury," he added.

These post-mortem findings contradict the police report issued on Sunday, which claimed Ojwang' had hit his head against a cell wall at Central Police Station.

Ojwang' died while in police custody on June 7, 2025, at Central Police Station, reportedly about an hour after being booked in.