Sharon Otieno was brutally raped by Okoth Obado’s goons before being painfully stabbed to death.
An officer involved in the investigation yesterday said that used condoms were found at the scene of the pregnant student’s murder.
“We found four used condoms and a pool of blood at the scene,” said the officer.
The 26-year-old’s body was found in a thicket near Wire Forest, about 50 metres from the Oyugis-Kisumu road, on Monday night, hours after she was kidnapped in Migori County alongside Nation Media Group journalist Barack Oduor.
Police said they were hot on the trail of three people suspected to have been involved in the kidnapping and murder of the student. Other sources indicated the search for the suspects had spread to Nairobi, where some of the culprits were believed to be hiding.
A team of detectives visited Kayole, where they were informed one or two suspects could be hiding, but no arrests were made.
The vehicle the suspects were said to have used was also missing. The only person police are holding is Michael Oyamo, Migori Governor Okoth Obado’s personal assistant. Detectives said they had established that there had been communication between Mr Oyamo, the deceased and other persons who have not yet been arrested.
The manner in which blood splattered on guava leaves and grass, sources said, suggested there was a struggle as Sharon was being killed.
At the Rachuonyo Hospital in Homa Bay, mortuary, attendants told the media that Sharon’s body was “in bad shape” when police brought it in. “There were several stab wounds on the back, ear and abdomen. The neck was broken,” said one of the attendants.
A postmortem examination is expected to be carried out on Friday to establish the cause of the death. As investigations progressed, police tightened security around the cell at the Homa Bay Police Station where Oyamo was being held. “We are not taking any chances given what happened in Nairobi recently when a suspect was found dead in his cell. Our suspect is under tight security day and night,” said a CID officer.
Yesterday afternoon, 10 detectives led by the Homa Bay County Directorate of Criminal Investigations Commander Daniel Wachira and his colleagues from Nairobi, visited the scene where Sharon’s body was found. CID officers, who included those sent from the special homicide squad in Nairobi, collected samples at the scene and visited the mortuary to view the body.