Obado "orchestrated a plot to eliminate Otieno", Judge Cecilia Githua said reading out her ruling, which was broadcast live on television. We believe that justice has at last been served to Sharon," a lawyer for the victim's family said. News of her murder gripped Kenyans at the time after a journalist with the Nation Media Group, Barack Oduor, said Otieno had contacted him about her affair with the then-governor. The investigation established that an "intimate relationship" had existed between Obado and Otieno, which "subsequently led to a pregnancy with the deceased that the governor was unhappy about", he added. In 2018, Obado had said he had nothing to do with the murder.