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Police probe incident involving judge

The chairperson of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Tana Delta Clashes Lady Justice Grace Nzioka (right) addresses a news conference in Mombasa December 4, 2012. The judge was ambushed as she drove into her Hardy home, Nairobi January 24, 2013. FILE

Police are investigating an incident in which a High Court judge was last night ambushed by five heavily armed gangsters in Nairobi.

Lady Justice Grace Nzioka was accosted by the thugs as she drove into her home in Hardy Estate, Nairobi at around 10.30pm. The thugs forced their way into her compound and held the judge hostage for hours.