Police officers have arrested a woman in connection with the death of a Pwani University student in Uasin Gishu County.
The 26-year-old woman identified as Jane Wairimu is said to have killed David Wairire,23, at Kipkenyo, Kapseret Constituency on Saturday night.
The police said the lady then stayed with the dead body until Tuesday 26, October when neighbours discovered the student had died.
Residents said the two have been living together for the past six months.
It is said Wairimu told her neighbours that thugs had attacked her and Wairire on Saturday night, but reported the matter on Tuesday after the body of the student was discovered in the same house the lived in together.
Wairimu said Wairire lost his conscious after the alleged Saturday night attack.
Her explanation regarding the circumstance that led to the death of her boyfriend and why she had not reported the attack raised eyebrows. Her neighbours accused her of killing her boyfriend.
The student’s body had its hands tied, a stab wound in the stomach and a bruise on the face. Police suspect it was a murder.
Wairire’s uncle Moffat Muriuki said the deceased was the only child of his late parents and had been managing his father’s estate – the place he was living.
According to Muriuki, Wairire and Wairimu have been living together for the last five months and had not been quarrelling.
“I last met him on Thursday last week, and we have not talked since then. I was planning to attend a burial in the neighbourhood when I was called by Wairire’s neighbour that my nephew was dead,” Muriuki said as reported by The Standard.
“I don’t know much about the character of the young woman he has been living in his late father’s rental property but neighbours say they have been living peacefully,” he added.
Muriuki wondered why Wairimu failed to report the death and stayed with the dead body for four days.
A neighbour said he became suspicious after failing to see Wairire for several days.
James Lugano, a next-door neighbour, said he also became suspicious after he failed to see Wairire for several days.
“I met his girlfriend in the morning and I asked her how Wairire was doing, and she told me that they were attacked on Saturday evening and that he has been unconscious since then. I was shocked and asked to see him. Upon entering the house, I found him lying lifeless covered with a blanket from the chest down,” Lugano narrated as reported by the daily.
He continued: “I doubted whether he was alive and I moved out and luckily some traffic police officers on patrol were driving near the house. I requested for help and immediately they entered the house, and they told me that my neighbour was already dead.”
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According to the Uasin Gishu County Police Commander Ali Gitonga, both Wairimu and Wairire had bruises on their bodies and indication that the two had fought.
The police boss said the suspect is being held at the Langa Police Station for further investigations.
“We suspect that the young man died two days before the body was discovered.
Investigations are ongoing and the body has been taken to the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital for autopsy,” the Standard quoted the police boss.
