- Here is a compilation of crime incidents that made news this week.
There is no day in Kenya that a crime report would miss as a news item.
Here is a compilation of crime incidents that made news this week.
Leg floating in Nairobi River
Police in Nairobi are investigating the discovery of a torsoless human leg that was found floating in the Nairobi river in Korogocho slums.
The leg seemed to have been swept to the scene and efforts to identify it are ongoing.
This is after chopped human body parts were discovered in Kayole stuffed in a sack.
Suicide
A third-year student of Murang’a University of Technology was reported to have died by suicide.
Samantha Nyawira was pursuing a degree in Tourism
She was found hanging in her rented house in Murang’a town.
The deceased’s colleagues linked the incident to an argument the woman had with her boyfriend, which led to a breakup.
Police are investigating the matter.
Body daggling from a tree
On April 17, a decomposing body of a man was found hanging on a tree in Ngong Forest.
A forest ranger told police he was patrolling part of the area when he stumbled on the body.
The ranger called the police who took the body to the mortuary.
Police handling the case say they are yet to know if the man died by suicide or was killed.
Quarrel turns tragic
A 16-year-old boy is on the run after he allegedly stabbed and killed his stepfather, 49, in a domestic quarrel in Mwiki area, Nairobi.
Nairobi police boss Adamson Bungei said they had established from the neighbor the boy and slain father had a quarrel in the house before it turned physical and fatal.
The reason for the fight was not immediately established, as it was only the two who were in the house.
Body wrapped in a suitcase
Police are investigating the murder of a woman whose body was found wrapped in a suitcase and dumped outside a residential house in Kamakis, Kiambu County.
The incident was discovered by locals who noticed the suitcase placed at the entrance of the residence.
The suitcase had been stuffed in a sack when the body was found. The woman had an injury on the head and was half naked.
The boyfriend of the woman was arrested in connection with the murder.
Police said the man had confessed to the murder of the woman identified as Rispa Ndunge Vaati, 27, from Kitui South Sub County.
Another apartment fall
A four-year-old boy died following a fall from the sixth floor of an apartment in Huruma estate, Nairobi.
Master Oscar Nabikhwa had been playing with other children on the balcony of their apartment when he slipped and fell off to the ground floor.
Police said Oscar had earlier arrived home from school before he ventured out to join other children on Monday evening. April 17.
Lands CAS in a shooting drama
On April 17, Lands Chief Administrative Secretary Kimani Ngunjiri was disarmed after he shot and injured one man in a dramatic incident in Nakuru.
This was as he confronted a group of about 100 people on a disputed piece of land.
Rift Valley head of DCI Francis Wanjau confirmed they confiscated a Ceska pistol from Ngunjiri following the morning drama.
Drug possession
A Kenyan national was arrested by the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) of Ghana for allegedly being in possession of illegal substances.
NACOC said the woman was intercepted trying to smuggle the alleged cocaine weighing 11.04 kilograms at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) worth USD309,000 (Sh40 million).
The 35-year-old woman was apprehended during a routine check at the arrival hall after disembarking from a South African Airways flight from Nairobi to Accra via Johannesburg.
Robbery in Nairobi
An M-Pesa attendant is fighting for his life in hospital after he was shot and seriously wounded before being robbed of Sh70,000 in Nairobi’s Highrise area.
Jacob Aoko Opati, 26, was shot in the stomach and hand.
He told police he was walking home Friday night from his Mpesa shop in the Soweto area when he was confronted by two gunmen.
House shooting
Mystery surrounds the shooting death of a businessman in Nairobi’s South C area by a gunman who accessed his bedroom.
Questions are being raised about how Imran Ismail Singh, 41, and an accountant at a Nairobi-based firm was shot twice in the head while sleeping in his home in Midlands Estate at around 2 am Saturday.
The motive behind the incident is yet to be known so far.