Lawrence Njoroge Warunge, 22, the prime suspect in the brutal killings of his four family members and a farmhand in Kiambu, is mentally unfit to stand trial, the medical assessment report done at Nairobi’s Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital shows.
The report tabled Tuesday before Kiambu Chief Magistrate Patricia Gichohi by the prosecution team also shows that Warunge has a history of smoking marijuana and drinking spirits and has paranoid delusions.
“Lawrence is mentally unstable and is not fit to plead,” the report reads.
The report further says that the suspect is suffering from an induced psychosis which is a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
“Lawrence is mentally unstable and is not fit to plead,” the report reads.
The report further says that the suspect is suffering from an induced psychosis which is a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
On family history, the report says Warunge had a frosty relationship with his father, whom he killed alongside other family members.
Following the report, the court ordered that Warunge be taken back to Mathari Hospital where the medical exam test was done so that he can start his treatment.
His case will be mentioned in court on March 1, 2021.