A 22-year-old man is in custody after he was caught licking blood off a dead body at a morgue in Homa Bay County.
The Standard on June 19 reported that 'Onyango' was nabbed while licking the blood of a woman who was an Early Childhood Development Education-ECDE teacher at a local school within the locality of Gul Kagembe.
According to a police report, the teacher was shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in Rangwe on Tuesday, June 15.
Onyango, who hails from Ndhiwa, visited the morgue on Thursday, June 17, and asked to view a body.
According to the attendants at the mortuary, he gave the name of a male.
He was allowed entry into the facility after the attendants found the name he had given recorded in the registry.
File image of the Homa Bay County Referral Hospital Mortuary. |Photo| Courtesy|
Onyango went inside in the company of a boda boda operator and were shown to where the body he had come to check was. After viewing it, they decided to leave.
According to the attendants, Onyango saw the body of the teacher while on his way out. He approached it, knelt besides it and started licking it.
“He started by tasting the blood with his right finger before he knelt and reached out by his tongue,” one of the attendants who witnessed the incident told the police.
The incident caught the attention of the attendants who called for the hospital security guards. Onyango was held at the hospital and later handed over to the police.
Homa Bay Directorate of Criminal Investigations Officer Monica Berege revealed that he is being held at Homa Bay Police Station and is being interrogated over the incident.
She stated that his actions prompted a probe into his connections with the teacher's death.
“We want to get more information regarding why he was licking the teacher’s blood. This will help us know if there is any link between his actions and the teacher’s death,” Berege stated.
She, however, indicated that he might be a drug addict.
“He looks like a drug addict but we cannot assume anything. He is telling us that he comes from Ndhiwa but the place may not be his real home. We will have to visit his home to view the environment,” she said.
The 40-year-old teacher was gunned down by unknown assailants while she was washing utensils at her home.
Preliminary investigations by the police are yet to ascertain the motive of the murder or the perpetrators.
