Police car at a scrime scene/FILE
Police are hunting for a suspect who killed his girlfriend and called the Isinya police station in Kajiado County to report the same.
The
suspect told police he murdered the woman on February 3.
According
to police, the suspect, aged 27, informed police he killed his girlfriend
identified as Risper Ngendo Munene, 24, at a house where he worked as a caretaker in Olooltepes sub-location,
Oloosirkon location of Isinya sub-county.
Police said the suspect then hunged up the phone and vanished. His mobile phone has been switched off since then.
The security officers visited the scene at the weekend and found the body of Ngendo in a house, which
was locked.
The body was covered with a blanket on the bed and had black marks on the limbs and neck and was swollen. The woman had traveled to the area to visit the man when the incident happened.
The
decomposed body was moved to Nairobi Funeral Home (City Mortuary) awaiting
postmortem.
Police said they are yet to establish the motive of the murder. The hunt on the suspect is ongoing, police said.
Meanwhile, police are investigating an incident in which a murder suspect was found dead in
a cell at Chogoria police station, Tharaka Nithi County.
The
suspect was also being held at the station over claims of child kidnapping.
James
Muthaura, 30, was found dead on Thursday morning, police said.
Police at
the station said other suspects being held there screamed for attention, and on
checking, they found the man had died by suicide as he hanged himself on the ventilation grill.
Muthaura reportedly used his underwear to hang himself.
The
underwear was found tied around his neck. Senior police officers visited the
scene as part of the probe into the incident.
The
officials have invited the Independent Policing Oversight Authority to join in
the probe.
The body
was moved to Chuka Referral Hospital morgue pending autopsy.
In
Laisamis police station, two male suspects escaped from custody in unclear
circumstances.
The two
identified as Abraham Kimeto and Peter Gitau had been held over breaking and
stealing and handling stolen property when they escaped on Thursday morning.
They were
scheduled to appear before a mobile court in the area when the incident
happened.
Police
said they found them missing and it is suspected they were facilitated to
leave.
A police
officer who was on duty at that time was arrested as part of the probe into the
incident, police said.
A search
is ongoing in the area as part of efforts to rearrest the suspects.
Cases
where suspects escape from custody have been on the rise in the past month amid
claims of complicity.
The cases
are pending under probe, police say.
Some of
the suspects have since been rearrested, while others are at large.
Last
month, eight suspects escaped from Wundanyi prison in Taita Taveta after
cutting the roof of their cell.
Four of the suspects have been rearrested and taken to Manyani prisons while the hunt on the remaining ones is ongoing, police and prisons officials said.
