Chief suspect in Muranga’s warden murder details events before killing her

Following the arrest of the boy friend of slain Murang’a prison warder another key suspect has been nabbed. 24 hours after Pauline Wangari’s boy friend Peterson Njiru, one Joseph Ochieng who is now the chief key suspect has reportedly been arrested as well in the murder by the DCI.

Ochieng who claims to have had a fling with the lady has confessed that an argument over hard drugs after a bhang session on the night of Monday May 13 was what pushed the killing of the 24 year old warden. Ochieng was arrested on a roadblock placed at Kipsitet area in Kericho County on Thursday 5 pm

According to the suspect, he had an argument with Wangari after she refused to take some hard drugs which he had given her, the Murang’a DCI said to reporters in confidence.

Prior to the tiff, the two spent a significant part of Monday evening indoors smoking bhang, the suspect told the DCI.

“As per the suspect’s testimony, he strangled the woman after she refused to take the drugs he was recommending to her. He said the woman, thereafter, fell down with a thud, and he thought he had killed her. Sent into a panic mode following the development, the suspect said he reached for a kitchen knife and stabbed her in the chest, neck and abdomen, and, thereafter, put the knife firmly in her grip in a bid to make it look like Wangari had killed herself,” said the DCI officer.

In his testimony, the suspect further claimed prior to the quarrel, he and Pauline Wangari got intimate. A medical examination on Wangari is yet to authenticate Ochieng’s claims.

The killing happened at Wangari’s rented house in Kiharu, Murang’a County.

Ochieng, 24, said May 13 was the first time he travelled to the county as well as fist meeting face-to-face with Wangari, whom he knew through Facebook.

“He described his relationship with the suspect as ‘just a friendship’,” said the DCI officer handling the case.

Wangari’s lifeless decomposing body bearing multiple stab wounds in the stomach, chest and head.was discovered in her rental house in Kiharu Estate, Wednesday morning.

A roll of bhang was also placed between her lips, with a kitchen knife in her right hand