Confessed blood cult serial killer Philip Onyancha should be locked
up in an asylum for the criminally insane — without considering his defence, the DPP says.
On Friday senior assistant DPP Moses Omirera said Onyacha is a very dangerous person who
should never be released.
Omirera urged trial judge James Wakiaga to invoke section 166 of the Criminal Procedure Code, find him guilty of murder and commit him to an institution.
Doctors who examined Onyancha said he is of sound mind. Omirera said the report prepared by Dr Fredrick Owiti states that he cannot answer any question or defend himself, given his condition.
A chilling videotaped confession was played in the High Court in 2015.
The accused ‘vampire’ narrates in detail how he lured unsuspecting women and killed them over five years before he was arrested in 2008.
He was charged with the murders by strangulation of two women and a nine-year-old boy.
He said he did not have sex with his victims, he only drank their blood.
In the narration, Onyancha explains how he was inducted into a blood-sucking ritual by his high school teacher, identified only as Ms Kimani, while in form two.
“She would call me to her house to eat food and talk. Later we became more than friends. She would put foreign things in my food and I would get a strong urge for sex,”he said.
The prosecutor told Wakiaga that since Dr Owiti had classified the accused as a very dangerous person, he should not be released because he may commit similar offences.
“By invoking Section 166 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the court should return a verdict that the accused is guilty and insane,” Omirera said.
The prosecutor said the court should consider the
confession Onyancha gave, detailing how he lured his victims and killed them.
He led the police to the scene where the decomposing body of one of his victims was found.
Onyancha had told police that he had intended to kill 100 women.
Onyancha is charged together with two of his accomplices, Tobias Arad and Douglas Makori.
The judge will give his decision on September 20.