Police are holding a 25-year-old university student in connection with the murder of 19-year-old Faith Musembi, a student at Mt Kenya University.
The suspect was arrested in Nairobi after preliminary investigations suggested that he killed the student over alleged infidelity.
Thika Police commander Lawrence Muchangi said the suspect is currently being held for interrogation.
He did not reveal much about how the incident happened.
The family of the deceased had suspected the involvement of the suspect in the murder of Faith.
An autopsy conducted at the Thika General Kago Funeral Home indicated that she succumbed due to excessive bleeding.
The report indicated that she had bleeding in the uterus caused by an abruption placenta (the placenta had detached itself leading to excessive bleeding).
Her lifeless body was discovered by her father Boniface Musembi in her rented room at Pilot Estate within Hospital Ward in Thika.
He told journalists on Friday that they received a call on Wednesday from an unknown individual demanding a ransom of Sh20,000 for the release of their daughter.
The caller was using the deceased’s phone. Musembi said that his wife hurriedly sent the money for the sake of their daughter’s safety, as he left for Thika to pursue the matter.
He said he went to the house where his daughter was staying but found it locked with a padlock.
He said he knocked and called out her name severally but there was no response.
Musembi said he inquired from the neighbours on the whereabouts of her daughter in vain.
He went out and asked a vegetable vendor if she had seen her and was informed she had sold the deceased vegetables the previous day.
Determined to find her, Musembi went back to another police station where he reported the matter but claimed the officers downplayed the ordeal as a trick usually staged by students whenever they want to siphon money from their parents or relatives.
Musembi then went back to her residence and broke into the house on his own. To his shock, he found his daughter’s lifeless body lying on the bed.
It was then that the police rushed to the scene. They later moved the body to the mortuary.
