The Latest on Lawrence Warunge Murder Trial
Having been found fit to stand trial, Lawrence Warunge was Thursday officially charged with five counts of murder.
The 22-year-old university student appeared virtually before Justice Mary Kasanga where he was charged with killing his father Nicholas Warunge, mother Anne Warunge, brother Christian Njenga, nephew Maxwell Njenga and construction worker James Kinyanjui on the night of January 5-6, 2021.
Warunge entered a not guilty plea. He was set to take plea on Wednesday, but it was pushed to Thursday to allow the prosecution to complete a miscellaneous application that had been filed at the Kiambu Law Courts.
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Lawrence Warunge, 22, is accused of killing five people, including four of his family members and a farmhand. [File, Standard]
Lawrence Warunge, who is accused of killing his four family members and a farmhand in Kiambaa, Kiambu County, has pleaded not guilty to five murder counts.
His innocence plea comes months after he allegedly confessed to DCI detectives that he killed his parents on January 5, 2021 for neglecting him.
Warunge was arraigned virtually before High Court Judge, Mary Kasango, on Thursday, April 15; two days after the suspect was declared fit to stand trial following a psychiatric test.
Warunge was charged with the murder of five people, including his parents, brother, nephew and a gardener.
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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.