Detectives have arrested two suspects behind the brutal murder of baby David Ndung’u whose lifeless body was dumped at Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital last month.
In an update by DCI on Wednesday, the two suspects Phylis Njeri and her husband Jackson Ngui were arrested near the Kenya Tanzania border.
According to DCI, sleuths at the communication team gathered the information from social media and shared the details with their elite team who immediately began the investigation into the torture and death of the 3-year-old boy.
"Investigations were launched immediately, unearthing gory details of how angel David was brutally murdered by Njeri and her husband Jackson Ngui, while her horrified elder brother Peter Ndung’u watched in shock.
"David and his 6-year-old brother Peter had been left under the care of Njeri, by their mother Maureen Njoki, who had left the country in November last year 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, triggering online outrage by Kenyans who called on the DCI to bring the suspect to justice.
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"The joint team of detectives conducted thorough investigations into the incident and through application of cyber & digital forensics, the suspects were traced at their hideout in the remote village in Kajiado county, as they desperately sought to cross the Kenyan border to Tanzania," part of the statement by DCI read.
DCI added," Further 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 little angel 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."
Detectives also recovered a whip that was used to assault the 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.
Meanwhile, detectives based at the DCI National Forensic Laboratory, biology division, and their scenes of crime counterparts shall be visiting the couple’s house for further DNA analysis of the scene, to obtain more scientific evidence for a watertight case against the suspects.
