Masten Milimo Wanjala, 20, was due for a court appearance Wednesday in Nairobi after admitting killing 10 children, when officers noticed during the morning roll call that he had disappeared.
Masten Milimo Wanjala, 20, had been set to appear in court yesterday, but was found to have escaped during morning roll call at Jogoo Road police station.
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By Editorial | July 19th 2021
The crime rate has clearly gone up a notch in Kenya. Criminals of all shades have been busy spewing misery in all directions. Chicken thieves, violent robbers, rapists, abductors and cold-blooded murderers have all ganged up against peace-loving Kenyans.
The criminals have not even spared children. The number of abductions and even murders of children in the recent past is mind-boggling. Last week, a suspect led the police to an area in the city where he, reportedly, claimed to have dumped two bodies of children three bodies were eventually discovered at the scene. One of the bodies was that of Junior Mutuku Musyoka, 12. Before he was killed, an anonymous person had called his mother demanding Sh50,000 ransom.
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The suspect Masten Milimu Wanjala confessed to killing five children at Moi’s Bridge in Uasin Gishu County.
The 20-year-old man accused of abducting and killing 12 children has provided the police with more clues of the spots where he dumped his victims.
Masten Milimu Wanjala told Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) detectives that he had dumped one body in Machakos and another two in Nairobi.
Wanjala, who is helping the police with investigations, said he had dumped one body in an abandoned house in Mlolongo.
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He said he had dumped two other bodies in a sewer line in Nairobi’s Pumwani estate. The search for the three bodies resumed yesterday after a one-day break.
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The suspect (left) confessed to killing five children at Moi’s Bridge in Uasin Gishu County. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]
It all began on Tuesday with the arrest of a suspect in connection with the disappearance of two boys in Biafra, within Eastleigh area in Nairobi County.
Within hours of his arrest, the 20-year-old man led DCI officers from the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau to a spot where he claimed to have dumped bodies of two boys aged 12 and 13 in a thicket near the Kenya School of Government in Kabete.
One of the bodies was identified by the family of a missing child yesterday at the City Mortuary as that of Junior Mutuku Musyoka, 12. The other body is yet to be identified.