Widow, son to take DNA test in Sh200 million inheritance battle

Norah Atieno with her lawyer Steve Biko during the hearing of a succession case for properties of former director of Evans Sunrise Hospital, Washington Olweny, at Nakuru Law Courts on March 22, 2021. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

A woman and her son have agreed to take a paternity test in a succession case pitting three widows of Nakuru businessman Washington Olweny.

High Court judge Teresia Matheka directed lawyer Diana Gichuru appearing for Phelisia Akoth, the first widow, to file a formal application in court seeking to have her co-widow Norah Atieno and her son John Kevin Odhiambo take a DNA test.

Gichuru had raised doubt about Odhiambo being the child born out of an intimate affair between Atieno and the late Olweny.