A convict who was serving a life sentence for the Garissa University terror attack has been found dead in his cell at the Kamiti Maximum Prisons, Nairobi.
Police and prisons officials said Rashid Mberesero, 26, committed suicide using a piece of blanket he was using in his cell at Block H.
The Tanzanian national's body was found hanging on the window metal grill of the cell with the piece of blanket tied around his neck minutes after death.
Officials said the incident happened at about 3pm on Friday after the convicts had their last meal for the day. His body was taken to the city mortuary.
Mberesero had appealed his sentence and the case was pending at the Milimani law courts.
The deceased was on July 3, 2019 and two others convicted over the April 2015 incident that left 148 people dead.
His co-conspirators, Hassan Edin and Mohamed Abdi, who are Kenyans were jailed for a jail term of 41 years each and are still in jail.
The three had been found guilty of conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack and of belonging to al-Shabaab terror group.
Mberesero was then given the longest term because he was arrested at the scene of the massacre and could not explain his presence there, the court was told.
