Self-confessed Moi’s Bridge serial killer scheduled for sentencing

Self-confessed serial killer Evans Wanjala, who is linked to the brutal killing of five minors, will know his fate Friday after the High Court found him guilty in one of the murder cases he faces.

Justice Reuben Nyakundi will deliver the sentence against the serial killer who has been found guilty of defiling and strangling to death one of the victims at Moi’s bridge in Uasin Gishu.

“I will deliver the sentence on Friday so that this matter ends,” Nyakundi said.

He gave the directive when the suspect appeared in court on Wednesday to know his fate but the sentencing was pushed to Friday.

In his frightening confession to detectives at the onset of the case, Wanjala took investigators to various scenes where he reportedly committed the offence.

He narrated how he executed his shocking missions. The statement from the DCI which was also tabled in court revealed how Wanjala brutally attacked and ended the lives of the minors.

In the case at hand, Wanjala has been found guilty of defiling and strangling Stacy Nabiso, 10, six years ago.

Nyakundi said the prosecution had blow by blow produced compelling evidence against Wanjala.

The judge noted that the evidence was backed by medical reports presented in court and also the testimony from forensic experts.

DNA analysis showed that samples collected from the minor’s t-shirt and underwear matched with those taken from Wanjala.

Nyakundi said the evidence placed Wanjala at the centre of the heinous crime.

"Medical experts confirmed that the minor was defiled and strangled to death.

Even DNA tests on blood samples collected from the minor's t-shirt and underwear matched with samples taken from the accused,” justice Nyakundi said.

During the trial Wanjala had made an application to enter into plea bargaining however, the family of the victim declined urging the court to deal with the matter as per the law.

Sharon Sakwa, mother to the deceased, termed the application by Wanjala as a mockery to her family bearing in mind that her only daughter was subjected to a painful death.

“He caused a lot of pain to my daughter and killed her brutally. Its impossible to imagine that we can sit on one table to talk to such a person,” she said.

Nabiso was reported missing on December 31, 2019, before her mutilated body was found buried in a thicket in Soweto estate in the outskirts of Moi’s bridge township on January 1, 2020.

A court ordered the exhumation of her remains before a postmortem was conducted.

The bodies of the other four children who died in similar manner linked to the same suspect were also exhumed from various places in Moi’s bridge area in Uasin Gishu and Trans Nzoia county respectively.

Wanjala is also linked to the murder of Linda Cherono, 13, Mary Elusa, 14, Grace Njeri, 12, and Lucy Wanjiru, 15. He faces other murder charges.