Post-mortem shows Albert Ojwang did not hit his head on a wall as police reported
Albert Ojwang, who died in custody at the Central Police Station in Nairobi, suffered multiple body injuries and did not hit himself against a wall as earlier reported, a post-mortem has revealed.
Addressing the media from City Mortuary on Tuesday, Government Pathologist Bernard Midia revealed that Ojwang did not hit himself on the wall as earlier reported in a police report.
Midia, speaking after completing an autopsy on his body on Tuesday, stated that in the event of one hitting themselves on a wall, frontal bleeding on the head would be seen.
“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 explained.
The pathologist, who conducted the procedure alongside the family’s representative, Mutuma Zambezi, dismissed the possibility of Ojwang injuring 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 explained.
“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 said.
The post-mortem findings contradict a police report on Sunday, which said Ojwang hit his head on the wall of a cell at Central Police Station.
Ojwang died while in police custody on June 7, 2025, at Central Police Station, allegedly an hour after he was booked in.
