- Kang'ethe left the country on Sunday and is expected to face murder charges in a Boston court on Tuesday.
- The suspect returned to Kenya last year after he allegedly killed Margaret Mbitu.
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Murder suspect Kevin Kang'ethe has been extradited to the United States, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Renson Ingonga has said.
Kang'ethe left the country on Sunday and is expected to face murder charges in a Boston court on Tuesday.
"Kang'ethe left Nairobi on September 1, 2024, and is set to face the charge of murder at Suffolk Superior Court in Pemberton Square, Boston on September 3, 2024," the DPP said.
The suspect returned to Kenya last year after he allegedly killed Margaret Mbitu.
He got arrested in Nairobi, before he escaped and got re-arrested.
On July 31, a Nairobi court ordered the extradition of Kang'ethe to face trial in the USA over the alleged murder of Mbitu.
Milimani chief magistrate Lucas Onyina in his ruling found that the alleged offence of murder to which the Extradition Request and the Authority to Proceed relate met the list test.
The court further said the material laid before it established a link between Kang'ethe and the alleged offence of first-degree murder, and the court, not being a trial court, was not mandated to conduct a trial to determine his guilt or otherwise.
"That will be the mandate of the trial court, not this court handling these extradition proceedings," Onyina said.
The ruling said there was established reasons to justify the surrender of the respondent to the United States to face trial for the offence of first-degree murder in violation of Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 265, section 1.
"The application is therefore allowed of prayer number 2, which specifically the Respondent is hereby ordered to be returned and/or conveyed out of Kenya and surrendered in the United States of America to face charges of the alleged first-degree murder in violation of Massachusettes General Law, Chapter 265, section 1, for which he was formally charged by criminal complaint in Case No, 23 CR-2559 in the District Court in Chelsea, Massachusett,s" the magistrate ruled.