A murder suspect has confessed to killing 24-year-old Pauline Wangari, who was a prison warder at the Murang’a GK prison.
Wangari’s body which had stab wounds was found in her rented house in Kiharu, Murang’a, on Wednesday.
Investigators handling the case said that the suspect confessed to killing the bubbly officer.
The suspect was arraigned before the Murang’a Law Courts where he confessed to being high during the incident.
He told investigators he met with the deceased on social media before she invited him to Murang’a.
When he visited the girl, they allegedly went clubbing and later smoked weed before they retired to bed.
He then reportedly strangled the girl and decided to stab her after she was dead in efforts to cover up the heinous murder.
“As per the suspect’s testimony, he strangled the woman after she refused to take the drugs he was recommending to her. He said the woman, thereafter, fell down with a thud, and he thought he had killed her. Sent into a panic mode following the development, the suspect said he reached for a kitchen knife and stabbed her in the chest, neck and abdomen, and, thereafter, put the knife firmly in her grip in a bid to make it look like Wangari had killed herself,” said the DCI officer.
The suspect, identified as Joseph Ochieng, was arrested on Thursday in Kericho on his way to Kisumu.
Police were trailing him after he was captured by a CCTV camera in the deceased’s house.
According to investigators, the suspect was captured by the cameras entering the house on Monday night around 9pm and leaving in the morning around 3am.
He took away the prison warder’s TV set, her phone, and a bag.