Police are detaining a Form 3 boy accused of killing his younger female cousin at the latter’s parents’ home in Kagio, Kirinyaga county. A police vehicle at the scene in Kagio, Kirinyaga county. The 17-year-old was arrested in Ruaka town on Saturday, April 13, Citizen TV reported. Kirinyaga Police Commander Andrew Naibei had earlier confirmed the tragic incident on Friday, April 12. How did Kirinyaga murder suspect flee to Ruaka? He said the suspect, a student at Gathuthiini Secondary School, fled to his uncle’s place in Ruaka, where he was traced. “The boy thought that his uncle was not aware he had killed his cousin at Kagio, and that is when he (uncle) informed the authorities and the boy was arrested,” the police boss was quoted. He is said to have confessed to his uncle about the heinous act, further revealing that he sold his bicycle, whose proceeds he used as the fare to Ruaka from Kirinyaga. The deceased’s mother, Pauline Wairimu, had left the two at home as she left for a nearby market, oblivious to the imminent tragedy. “I left my daughter doing homework with her cousin as I went to the market with my maid and husband. After finishing our errands, my husband and I stayed back while the maid headed home,” she told Citizen TV. To learn of the girl’s tragic death was their domestic help, who stumbled on the body lying in a pool of blood in the room they were left. The boy had already fled. Efforts to resuscitate her proved futile, as she was pronounced dead on arrival at a nearby hospital. Wairimu was gutted that it would be her sister’s child, her nephew, to end her daughter’s life in such a tragic manner. “I didn’t think my sister’s child would kill my daughter, who was very much in school and church,” she lamented. On his arrest, the suspect was immediately transferred to the Kiamaciri Police Station in Kirinyaga ahead of his arraignment to face murder charges. The deceased was a pupil at Rwang’ondu Primary School.
BY TUKO NEWS