Rape cases have been increasing over the recent with the newest instance leaving the residents of Karinga Village in Kirinyaga County shocked.
This was after a primary school headteacher, Jane Wanjiru, was raped and brutally killed.
The 45 year-old who was a headmistress at Githure Primary School was hacked to death in her bathroom at her home in Gichugu
The single attacked reportedly ambushed and raped her while taking bath on, beat her to death with a hammer before attacking another woman later – 70-year-old woman who was sitting outside her house.
The assailant raped the granny repeatedly before he escaped.
The body of the late Wanjiru was discovered lying in a pool of blood unconscious inside the bathroom by a relatively but pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.
County Police Commander Joseph Nthenge said the incident was being treated as murder.