File ready to charge student with murder

Mutembei made the disclosure  as he spoke in his office as it emerged that  the name of the 23-year-old suspect was  Micheal Musyoki Muthami and  that he had already acquired a national identity card. “We will  take the suspect to the High Court in Kitui. We  intend to prefer murder charges against him but all that will be guided by the Office of the Directorate of Public  Prosecutions, ODPP. If he peruses the records and prefers manslaughter we will still go by that,” said Mutembei.

The Mwingi Central sub county DCI chief said that the  murder suspect was  being held at the Mwingi police station awaiting  the conclusion of investigations before he will be arraigned at Kitui High Court next week.“We filed a miscellaneous application at  the Mwingi Law Court last week and we were allowed to hold the suspect for 14 days since last  Friday. On August 6th, after we are done with the investigations, we will take him back to Mwingi court to close the application file,” Mutembei added.

He further said that once the miscellaneous application filed at the Mwingi law court is closed, the suspect will then be taken to Kitui High Court on August 7th  where he will be formally charged.On Thursday last week, the Mwingi central  sub county police commander, Antony Maina, confirmed  the arrest of the form three student for allegedly hacking his elder brother to death with a panga. “The young man hit his elder brother with a sharp panga on the left side, making a deep cut on the neck and in the process rupturing a  blood artery. He passed on minutes later after bleeding profusely,” said the sub county police commander. Maina said that police officers visited the scene of the brutal murder in Katothya village  on Wednesday evening and collected  the  body  of the slain 25-year-old man before arresting the alleged assailant. “The body has been preserved at the Mwingi sub district hospital awaiting autopsy as investigation into the killing that was caused by a deep panga gash to the neck got underway,” he said. 

He added that the murder weapon  had not been traced  and was optimistic of finding it.Although Maina said that it was  not clear what caused  the violent disagreement between the siblings resulting in the death of one of them, the area assistant chief Joseph Mbunge said they differed after their mother’s  goat disappeared mysteriously.“The violent confrontation started when the elder of the two brothers accused the younger one of wrongly accusing him of stealing their mother's goat. In the process, he punched the younger brother resulting in a fist fight,” said Mbunge.