The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Friday, December 27, announced that it had arrested the main suspect believed to be behind the murder of a woman in Nakuru on Christmas day.
In a statement, the DCI disclosed that its officers nabbed the suspect behind the murder of the woman whose identity is yet to be established. The suspect was tracked down to his hideout.
Subsequently, the suspect was taken into police custody for interrogation as investigations into the incident continued.
“A team of detectives drawn from DCI headquarters has arrested the prime suspect in the murder of a yet-to-be-identified middle-aged woman on December 25, 2024, in Nakuru. The suspect had run into hiding after committing the heinous murder,” the statement read in part.
Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations manning the agency’s main entrance in Nairobi.
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“After a tireless search, the suspect has been smoked out of his hideout at Tumaini shopping centre in Nyandarua County and is currently being interrogated and subjected to further police procedures pending arraignment,” the DCI added.
The police detailed the gruesome nature of the murder where the victim’s body was found in the servant quarters at a homestead in Ngomongo, Bahati, and called upon members of the public to desist from committing such heinous acts.
“On the fateful day, the suspect who was employed at Ngomongo Village within Rurii Location was said to have murdered the woman, gouged her eyes, severed her mammary glands, and thereafter inflicted multiple wounds on the victim’s head and abdomen before stuffing her remains in a sack and bolting out of his staff quarter residence,” the DCI reported.
“Later, his employer is said to have visited the staff quarters where she discovered a stuffed sack soaked in a pool of blood, a hammer, and a knife in a bucket- ¾ full of red-colored water and thereafter reported the matter at Workers Police Patrol Base,” the investigative body added.
“The scene was visited and the victim’s remains moved to Nakuru Annex Hospital Mortuary, as search for the 25-year-old murder suspect commenced,” DCI noted.
While the motive behind the murder is yet to be established, it is believed that the suspect is a member of the family where the victim’s body was found.
The Christmas Day homicide in Bahati, Nakuru, was part of a streak of Christmas Day murders in the county that police have subsequently launched probes to unearth their root causes. In the Bahati sub-county, a Kenya Defence Forces officer was detained after he allegedly beat up a 74-year-old man to death in a case the Christmas festivities turned sour.
According to police, the two were part of a group of merrymakers when in a fit of rage, the officer descended upon the old man, beating him to death. The army man is currently being held in Githioro Police Station.
Elsewhere, residents of Elementaita, Gilgil Sub County took to the streets on the morning of Boxing Day protesting the cold blood murder of a 75-year-old woman who was raped and killed in unclear circumstances on Christmas. Investigations to unearth the suspect and motive behind the homicide are currently underway.
(Left to Right) General Service Unit Commandant Ranson Lolmodooni, DCI Director Amin Mohammed and Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja during a press briefing in Nairobi on December 4 at Harambee house.
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