Top rally driver Asad Khan remains in ICU as girlfriend Maxine Wahome is released on KSh100,000 bail

Rally driver Maxine Wahome has been released on cash bail of KSh100,000 after spending a day in custody over claims of assaulting her boyfriend Asad Khan.

Asad Khan, a celebrated rally driver as well, is currently admitted at the High Dependency Unit at Avenue Hospital. 

In the ruling by Nairobi magistrate Bernard Ochoi, he said there was no compelling reasons to keep Ms Wahome in custody. 

The police had requested that she be held in custody for 14 days to complete investigations into the matter.

The directed the 24-year-old rally driver to be reporting to Kilimani Police Station every Thursday until the police complete the probe.

According to police, the incident was reported to Kilimani Police Station, and after rushing to the scene, they found Wahome in the house in distress.

The boyfriend, admitted in critical condition, could however not give his account of what happened to him.

The investigating officer said the scene has been documented and forensic evidence including blood stains and broken glasses collected for examination.

The police said they needed to find whether there were accomplices so that they could be arrested, obtain call data from their mobile phones for analysis and conduct DNA test of the blood samples. 

Preliminary investigations were that Khan sustained a deep cut in his ankle, allegedly inflicted by the woman.

In her defense, Ms Wahome claimed that Khan hurt himself as he was attacking her and as a victim, she needed protection.