A Swiss national charged in a magistrate’s court in Mombasa with luring 11 Kenyan women into prostitution has moved to the High Court to challenge the Sh1 million bond slapped on him on Thursday.
His lawyer Lumatete Muchai told Justice Martin Muya that the bond amount imposed by the junior court for his client’s freedom was excessive and discriminatory compared to the Sh100,000 slapped on each of the women he allegedly tried to conscript into prostitution and who are, jointly, charged with him.
Christoph Clement Reider was arrested with the women on Thursday last week in what police claimed was a brothel in Mombasa’s Nyali Estate and on Tuesday they were charged with promoting prostitution and profiting financially from vice.
He denied that on May 10 at Mwansa Apartment in Nyali he “knowingly and intentionally” caused the women to prostitute with expectation of earning proceeds of the vice. The judge will rule on Monday whether the suspect could have his bond reduced.
