A 29-year-old woman was
found dead after a suspected murder in her house in Uthiru area, Kiambu County.
Police said the body of Janet
Wanjiku Njeri was found by her mother in her room while covered by a heap of
clothes.
The mother said she was
looking for clothes to dress her (deceased's) young children to go to school when
she stumbled on the body.
The family lived in a
two-bedroom house in the Gichagi area where the incident happened on Tuesday,
police said.
The mother of the deceased, who works at a salon in the area, said she had left for work on Monday and left
Njeri in the house. She came back late and did not find her.
She sought to know from the
children where she was, and they told her she was at work, oblivious of the fact
that her body was in the house and covered by clothes.
The family went to bed, hoping to see Njeri in vain. Her mobile phone had been switched off.
It was until Tuesday morning, when she was looking for clothes to dress the deceased’s young children, that she
stumbled on the body.
Police were
called to the scene and moved the body to the mortuary pending autopsy. The motive
of the murder was not immediately established.
The police
suspect the woman was killed in the house. The body had facial physical injuries.
Meanwhile,
detectives are investigating an
incident where the body of a 34-year-old man who had been missing was found in
a borehole in Mtondia Maweni area, Kilifi county.
The family of Samuel Kithi had
reported he was missing on October 20, 2025, in the morning before the body was
discovered in the borehole, police said.
The victim had an injury on the head, and it is suspected he sustained the same during the fall into the borehole.
It
is not clear if he was killed and thrown there, fell by accident, or if he died by
suicide.
Police said they are investigating
the incident. The body of the man was retrieved and taken to the mortuary
pending an autopsy.
Elsewhere
in Kibiko, Kajiado county, a woman was found murdered and her body abandoned on
the roadside.
The body
was found on October 21, 2025, in Maragara area with bruises on the back and
neck.
Police suspect
she was strangled by her killers. The woman was not immediately identified.
Police said the body was moved to the mortuary pending an autopsy and other procedures.
