Two robbers with violence suspects believed to have been part of a gang that robbed, gang-raped and then killed a 76-year-old woman a month ago in the Serem area of Vihiga County have been arrested.
The suspects; Patrick Misiko,36, and Christine Jerono, 46 were arrested in the county's Majengo area, while in possession of the deceased's mobile phone Oking OK 237 that formed part of the items robbed from her during the July 18 robbery.
On the fateful night, the killer gang had broken into the house of the elderly woman in the dead of the night, descending on her with blunt objects and committing the abominable act.
They then made away with her gas cylinder, a solar cable, phone and shopping, leaving her writhing in agonizing pain as she slid into her untimely death.
Neighbours who heard a commotion at her homestead but were too late to catch up with the robbers rushed her to Mbale Referral Hospital in a bid to save her life, but she succumbed to severe head injuries two days later.
The case that had been reported at the nearby Tambua Police Post was taken over by Hamisi Sub-county detectives, where Crime Scene Investigators backed up by their Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau counterparts initiated a forensic trial on the perpetrators.
As the interrogation of the two suspects continues, the search for their accomplices has been heightened with the local police maintaining a sharp lookout.
