Majority of Kenyans hardly consider themselves capable of blue murder. [Courtesy]
You recall the story of Lawrence Njoroge Warunge. He was arrested as a suspect in the murder of five family members who included his parents in Kiambu County this January.
Njoroge, 22, confessed to having been inspired by “Killing Eve”, a British dark thriller TV series, besides also reading two novels “Eight Perfect Murders” and “The Eve of Murder”. Psychiatric evaluations have since deemed him fit to stand trial.
Then there was the recent story of Kelvin Akal, 24, from Nyalenda Kilo estate in Kisumu, who chopped off his grandmother’s head and surrendered with it to the police.
Lawrence Warunge Still Unfit To Stand Trial For Quintuple Homicide
A Kiambu Court has granted the prosecution more time to assess Lawrence Njoroge Warunge, the university student who confessed to killing five people, as his trial failed to kick-off for the second time on Monday, February 1.
Prosecution counsel Christine Mbevi told the court the accused is still mentally unfit to stand trial and is under medication.
“The suspect is expected at Mathari hospital on March 5 for a review. We are seeking more time, preferably [until] March 15, when we will update the court on his status,” Ms Mbevi said.
Chief Magistrate Patricia Gichohi gave the prosecution until March 15 to give an update on Warunge’s mental health status.
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.