The suspects in the heinous murder of baby David Ndung’u have finally been arrested following a public outrage on social media.
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) announced their arrest on Wednesday morning.
This comes after the 3-year-old David’s body was found dumped at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital last month.
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A team of detectives drawn from the Crime Research & Intelligence Bureau (CRIB), Homicide Branch and a crack team based at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations office tracked the main suspect in the minor’s murder Phyllis Njeri to Illasit village, close to the Kenya-Tanzanian border.
David’s mother, Maureen Njoki, left the country for greener pastures in Saudi Arabia in November 2021. She left David and his 6-year-old brother under the care of Njeri.
Barely four months into her Arabian dream of bettering her life and that of her family, Njoki received the devastating news of her son David’s brutal murder in the cruel hands of her ‘friend’ Njeri.
Investigation reports say Njeri and her husband Jackson Ngui brutally murdered David in the full sight of his horrified elder brother Peter Ndung’u in the couple's house in Kwa Maji area within Mowlem in Kamukunji Sub-county.
After committing the heinous crime, the couple frantically attempted to seek medication for David at local chemist shops, but unfortunately, David died before he could get the medical attention he needed.
The minor’s body was discovered at Mama Lucy Kibaki’s Hospital mortuary with severe burns on both hands, legs and buttocks.
Poor David must have gone through intense torture because his body also had fresh injuries on the neck, the back and the face.
The detectives recovered a whip that was used to flog Peter into silence while being threatened of dire consequences should he open his mouth to disclose what transpired.
David’s murder elicited powerful emotions from Kenyans online who demanded the DCI’s quick action to bring the perpetrators of the act to book.
Detectives based at the Corporate Communications & Public Affairs unit picked the information that was circulating on social networking platforms and forwarded the details to the investigation team.
The search for the culprits led the detectives to the remote village in Kajiado County where they found the two Njeri and Ngui seeking to flee the country into the neighbouring country Tanzania.
They were immediately arrested and put in transit for Nairobi where they will face murder charges.
Crime Scene Detectives from the DCI shall visit the murderous couple’s house to gather further evidence for a watertight case against the two.
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