How audio, text messages led to Joyce Akinyi's conviction

Joyce Akinyi at the Milimani Law Courts on November 6, 2014. [File, Standard]

A series of text messages, audio and photos formed part of what the state used to convince the court to jail drug queen Joyce Akinyi for 25 years for trafficking heroin worth Sh5 million.

Akinyi’s partner, Paulin Kalala from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and their other accomplice, Peres Anyango, were jailed for 10 and 25 years, respectively.

Akinyi's sister said that she had known Kalala for more than seven months and that the two had dated for more than two months.