Confounding information about the blatant escape of Nairobi’s Muthaiga Police Station murder suspect Kevin Kinyanjui Kang’ethe has surfaced.
Before fleeing to his native Kenya, Kang’ethe is alleged to have brutally murdered his lover in a US airport.
The bold escape occurred on Wednesday at around 5:30 p.m., in front of the station commander, who only heard a disturbance as her officers tried to pursue the fleeing Kang’ethe, according to a police report that has left the nation’s security apparatus on the spot.
The report states that at approximately 4 p.m., a man known as John Maina Ndegwa showed up at the station and identified himself to the officers as Kang’ethe’s personal lawyer, expressing his want to speak with his client.
The police allegedly complied with the request and removed the suspect from the cells, putting him in the anti-crime office number three alone with his “lawyer.”
“After a short while the prisoner escaped by running away and left the lawyer behind. At the time of the escape the station commander Chief Inspector Esther Muchomba was chairing a meeting/lecture with all the Anti-crime personnel and members of inspectorate while at her office, she was alerted by a loud noise of officers who were chasing the prisoner along Thika Super Highway but they did not manage to re-arrest him,” reads the report in part.
It’s unclear how the suspect managed to outwit armed officers in broad daylight.
Since then, four police officers who were on duty—Ann Wanjiku, a station guard; Elijah Kipkiror, a cell sentry; James Maina [ report ] and Hassan Saman, a station guard—have been placed under arrest while they are being questioned about the event.
John Maina Ndegwa, the counsel, is detained by the police as well.
Kang’ethe is suspected of killing a 31-year-old Whitman, Massachusetts resident who was born in Kenya. Her body was found in November of last year inside a car at Boston’s Logan Airport.
When investigators presented Kang’ethe in court after his arrest in Nairobi on a miscellaneous application, they were given 30 days to hold him while they decided whether to extradite him to the US, where he is sought for murder.
