A court had heard that the main suspect in the murder of National Lands Commission official Jennifer Wambua is mentally unfit.
On Wednesday the suspect Peter Mwangi Njenga alias Ole Sankale failed to take a plea after a mental test shows he is ill.
Mwangi will be arraigned on June 22 after the second test after the Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin Haji approved murder charges against him.
DCI detectives arrested Mwangi in the murder of the Acting communication director of the National Land Commission after forensics placed him at the crime scene.
According to the DCI, eyewitnesses placed Mwangi at the scene of the crime. The sleuths also established that the suspect was in their records for committing other offences.
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"Peter Mwangi Njenga alias Ole Sankale has been identified as the main suspect, among others at large in the heinous murder. The detectives through criminal intelligence first forensically placed the suspect at the scene of the crime.
"They managed to establish eyewitnesses who saw the suspect with the deceased the last time she was seen alive on March 12th, 2021, at the scene and thorough repeat combing of the scene they stealthily managed to pick crucial exhibits," part of the statement by DCI read.
The body of Wambua was discovered at the City mortuary after she went missing. Nairobi Police Commander Philip Ndolo revealed that her body was found dumped in Ngong forest.
Sleuths investigating the murder established that she was not abducted on the day she was reported missing.
Homicide detectives believe that Wambua left her vehicle at NLC before proceeding to Ngong for prayer in isolation as she was advised by her pastor.
Detectives said that after her prayers she met Mwangi who offered to get her drinking water before sexually assaulting her then strangled her to death.
