The Lavington Security guard who is alleged to have beaten up and strangled a 26-year-old University of Nairobi (UoN) student and dumped him at Central Park has been arraigned and ordered detained until Friday.
Spencer Kipkorir Kosgei, who was presented before resident magistrate DM Ndugi is alleged to have committed the offence with others who are still at large.
In an affidavit filed in court by investigating officer, Corporal Philip Bett, the police are seeking to detain the murder suspect for 10 days to complete their investigations.
The detective, who is attached to Kilimani’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations, said the suspect was arrested on Wednesday, March 11.
After the arrest, the suspect was taken to Kilimani Police Station.
The death of the UoN student, Elisha Otieno Odek alias Ras, was reported at the Central Police Station on March 8 by his brother Brighton Tonny.
His brother told the police that the deceased was admitted at Kenyatta National Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit on Wednesday, March 4 after the beating.
Further, Brighton said that an unidentified person called him and revealed that his brother was arrested by security guards on March 4.
The source told him that the security guards claimed that they would take his brother to the Central Police Station but ended up beating him up.
But after dumping his injured brother at the park, unidentified people tool him to KNH.
A post-mortem report done by pathologist, Dr PM Ndegwa, on March 11 revealed that the deceased multiple injuries caused by blunt force and neck compression caused the student’s death. The prosecution claim that the suspect went into hiding after committing the offence and was unreachable on phone, even by his employer.
