By Tajeu Shadrack Nkapapa
A team of detectives drawn from DCI Headquarters has arrested Benard Ngugi Mbau, the prime suspect in the murder of a yet to be identified middle-aged woman on 25th December, 2024 in Nakuru.
The DCI reported that the suspect had run into hiding after committing the heinous murder.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, on the fateful day Bernard who was employed at Ngomongo Village within Rurii Location is said to have murdered the woman, gourged her eyes, severed her mammary glands and thereafter inflicted multiple wounds on the victims head and abdomen before stuffing her remains in a sack and bolting out of his staff quarter residence.
“Later, his employer is said to have visited the staff quarters where she discovered a stuffed sack soaked in a pool of blood, a hammer and a knife in a bucket- ¾ full of red colored water and thereafter reported the matter at Workers Police Patrol Base,”the DCI said on X.
“The scene was visited and the victim’s remains moved to Nakuru Annex Hospital Mortuary, as search for the 25-year-old murder suspect commenced,” the DCI added.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has announced that following a tireless search, Benard has been located at his hideout in Tumaini Shopping Centre, Nyandarua County.
The DCI added that Benard Ngugi is currently undergoing interrogation and is subject to additional police procedures prior to his arraignment.