THE STANDARD By
George Njunge |
January 16th 2021 at 11:29:11 GMT +0300
Heareses arrive at the funeral venue in Wangunyu primary school in Karura Kiambaa on Saturday.
The funeral of the family killed in Karura last week is ongoing at Wangunyu primary school in Karura Kiambaa.
Nicholas Njoroge, a 55-year-old nurse from Kiambu County who was killed alongside three members of his family, suffered 34 stab wounds to the chest.
Njoroge, his wife, a son and a nephew were found murdered at their home in Karura.
Njoroge’s body was found outside his house at Karura ka Murimo while that of his wife Anne Njoroge, also a nurse, was recovered in the kitchen.
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Caskets bearing the remains of four family members killed in Karura, Kiambu County. [George Njunge, Standard]
It was pain and tears as caskets of Nicholas Njoroge, his wife Anne Wanjiku and sons Christian Njenga and Maxwell Njenga were placed side by side.
Speaker after speaker paid glowing tribute to the Njoroges and their two children.
The four family members were murdered in their house in Kiambu County and their son Lawrence Warunge, 22, is the main suspect.
Perhaps the most moving sight at the memorial service was the two surviving daughters, Joyce Njeri and Grace Karagi, who looked lost and shattered.
THE STANDARD By
Smitta Smitten |
January 15th 2021 at 11:24:48 GMT +0300
Nicholas Njoroge (bottom right), his wife Wanjiku and their two children who were murdered at their home in Kiambaa Constituency, Kiambu County on January 6. [Courtesy]
‘Killing Eve,’ the Netflix series, has been trending in Kenya since early this New Year, following the horrible murders of a father, mother, their son, his cousin, and family worker in Karura, Kiambaa, Kiambu.
This is because the main suspect, a 22-year-old lad, told investigating officers that he was influenced by this series, and specifically inspired by the psychopathic female assassin character in it called Villanelle.
THE STANDARD By
Gloria Aradi |
January 12th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Nicholas Njoroge (bottom right), his wife Wanjiku and their two children who were murdered at their home in Kiambaa Constituency, Kiambu County on January 6. [Courtesy]
The day-long postmortem examination procedure at Kenyatta Memorial Funeral Home in Kiambu County, overseen by Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor yesterday, shed more light into the painful and despairing last moments of the four family members and one worker murdered in Kiambu last week.
The illuminating details could be crucial in helping investigators unravel the puzzling case, in which the murdered family’s eldest son, Lawrence Waruinge, has been arrested and arraigned in court as a suspect.
THE STANDARD By
Kamore Maina |
January 10th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Lawrence Simon Warunge was arrested together with his 23-year-old girlfriend to help police unravel the January 5 murder of Nicholas Njoroge, his wife Ann, two children and a construction worker.
Warunge, a third year IT student at the Mt Kenya University was arrested at a relative’s house at Wangige on Friday night by officers from the Karuri Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
The girlfriend, only identified as Muthoni and who sells eggs at Biafra in Thika Town, was arrested at her rented house in Kijabe Town.
The two are being locked up at Muthaiga Police Station.