Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations have hunted down and arrested a murder suspect after a daring expose’ by journalist Lynn Ngugi.
The DCI, through their official Twitter page, confirmed that Phylis Njeri, who is accused of torturing a three-year-old boy to death was arrested at her hideout.
During an interview with Lynn Ngugi, the minor’s mother stated that she left the 3-year-old and his 6-year-old brother under the care of Njeri when she left the country in November 2021 for Saudi Arabia in search of greener pastures.
Barely four months after her departure, Njoki received the devastating news of her son’s brutal killing.
The story evoked an online uproar with Kenyans demanding that the DCI find the suspect.
Suspects arrested
Following overwhelming public outrage on social media over the brutal murder of baby David Ndung’u, whose lifeless body was dumped at Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital last month, detectives have arrested the perpetrators Phylis Njeri at her hideout in Illasit village, close to the Kenya-Tanzanian border.
Wrote DCI.
DCI added that forensic analysis conducted at the couple’s house in Kwa Maji area within Mowlem, in Kamukunji sub-county, revealed that the baby was killed in the house before his body was dumped at Mama Lucy Kibaki’s hospital mortuary.
Upon realizing the gravity of their actions, the murderous couple had desperately attempted to seek medication at local chemists but the boy was long gone.
Baby David’s body had severe burns on both hands, legs and buttocks. It also had fresh injuries on the neck, the back and the face, signifying the amount of torture
that the minor underwent, before his painful death.
The detectives also recovered a whip that was used to assault he deceased’s elder brother who was beaten senselessly and threatened with dire consequences should he reveal what had happened to his brother.
The two suspects are currently being transferred to Nairobi where they will face murder charges.