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THE STANDARD By
Daniel Wesangula |
February 27th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Caskets bearing the remains of four family members killed in Karura, Kiambu County. [George Njunge, Standard]
In April of 2019, sixth-year medical student Ivy Wangechi had just finished her ward rounds at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and was enjoying light banter with colleagues as she walked out into the bright Eldoret sunshine heading towards the student hostels a few metres away.
But Ivy never reached her destination. A young man approached her and struck her on the head with an axe. He slit her throat then struck her one final time. Naphtali Njahi Kinuthia, thought to have been Ivy’s boyfriend, is the main suspect in the killing and is currently facing murder charges at the Eldoret law court. He has pleaded not guilty.
THE STANDARD By
Kamore Maina |
January 30th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Murder suspect Charles Oluenyi is taken to an awaiting police vehicle following his arrest. [Emmanuel Mochoge, Standard]
It is not yet clear how Charles Oluenyi turned from an admired sales and marketing executive among his peers to a suspect in a murder investigation.
On Wednesday, when former classmates, workmates and business acquaintances saw him plastered across television screens and all over social media, few could reconcile the image of the usually well-groomed, eloquent university graduate with the man threatening to jump off a sixth-floor balcony of a flat in Nairobi’s Kayole estate.