Nairobi Police Officer Arrested after Woman He Visited at Night Jumped to Her Death

 

A police officer, Victor Ouma, is in custody as investigations into a woman's mysterious death continue. Twenty-eight-year-old Nelvin Museti died after falling off a Lang'ata residential apartment. Twenty-eight-year-old Nelvin Museti jumped to her death from the third floor on January 11, according to the caretaker of the Ascort Apartments where she stayed. How did police learn of Lang'ata woman's death? She is said to have fallen off her balcony at 5:00am, with the caretaker booking the incident with the Lang'ata Police Station. The officers showed up at the scene and ferried the body to the City Mortuary ahead of the postmortem. According to a police report spotted by TUKO.co.ke, Ouma visited Museti in her house having bought a host of articles, among them alcoholic drinks. Meanwhile, they established that Ouma had been in constant communication with the deceased, this a forensic analysis of the victim's phone suggested his suspected presence at the scene. "Investigations were immediately commenced whereby a mobile telephone analysis of the victim's phone was carried out and it was established a mobile subscriber 0723588227 later identified as No 114270 PC Victor Ouma was found to have been in constant communication with the victim," an excerpt of the police report read. The analysis also located Ouma in the house by the time his company was jumping off the floor. "Further analysis revealed that the subscriber proceeded and joined the victim at her apartment for the night additionally he was found to have purchased an alcoholic drink for Ksh.1,650 before joining the victim, further investigations are ongoing to establish whether an alteration occurred in the apartment between the nights of 10-11/1/2024," the police said.Recovered in the deceased's house was an empty Viceroy bottle, a 2-litre soft drink, a partially smoked roll of bhang, and a used rubber contraceptive. Ouma was stationed at the GSU headquarters in Ruaraka. The motive behind the incident remained unclear. Mysterious deaths in Nairobi Museti becomes the third known case of a mysterious death in Nairobi within this month. On January 4, a city socialite named Starlet Wahu was found murdered inside a short-term rental house she had booked herself into in the company of a man, a John Matara who would be treated as the prime suspect in the murder. Wahu was stabbed in the thigh and chest, bleeding excessively to death, the police said. A fortnight later, another woman was found decapitated and remains stuffed inside garbage bags after she booked herself into a Roysambu apartment with a man.  Twenty-year-old Rita Waeni was killed on January 13, the suspect whom he had spent time with fleeing the scene. Three people were arrested in connection with the murder. 

by  Kai Eli