A 29-year old suspect Nelson Barasa is currently being held at Kapenguria police station after he surrender to the police officers for allegedly killing his lover in a love-gone-sour fiasco.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) noted that the suspect walked casually into the police station and requested to see the DCIO to report a case.
The suspect is said to have told the police that he reported himself because he never wanted the family of the lady and the police to wasted their valuable time trying to look for her.
“He was led to the criminal investigations office where he told our officers that he had murdered his girlfriend and didn’t want her kin and our officers to spend valuable time looking for her,” the DCI said in a statement.
The suspect further asked the police to accompany him to the location he had committed the crime and left his girlfriend’s body. He said to have left the girl’s body 10 kilometers from the station. The body of the girl, Egla Chepkorir, 20, was found sprawled under a tress in the middle of a maize plantation.
“The officers who were bemused by the man’s confession questioned him further on the veracity of his claims, since such admissions are hard to come by,” the police report said.
The suspect reportedly told the police that the killed his girlfriends after he discovered that the deceased was having an affair with another man and he could not bear the pain of her betrayal.
He also told the officers that he lured the youth lady to the maize plantation and brutally murdered her using a leso.
At the scene, the police recovered a leso believed to have been used to commit the crime.
