Police in Kangundo have rearrested a suspect linked with abducting two secondary school girls for allegedly issuing death threats on witnesses.
The suspect, Mathews Ochieng, who had been recently released on Sh50,000 cash bail by a Kangundo court where he had been initially charged, now faces additional count of threatening the victims’ parents through telephone communication.
On Monday, Kangundo DCIO Wycliffe Sifuna said the prosecution had gathered sufficient evidence to sustain the additional charge against the suspect, who he said will be arraigned in court on Tuesday.
“We rearrested the suspect after we received complaints from one of the girls’ parent that the accused person had made calls threatening the parents with death if they failed to withdraw the charges against him in court,” Mr Sifuna told journalists at his office in Kangundo police station.
The prosecution alleges the suspect, who claims to be a shoe dealer in Nairobi’s Buruburu estate lured the two girls, who are form three students at a girls’ school in Matungulu sub-county, after they were reportedly sent home for school fees balances.
According to the DCIO, the suspect then drove the minors to his residence in Nairobi’s Kayole estate where he had been defiling them repeatedly.
The girls are said to have stayed at the suspect’s one bed-roomed house for twelve days until they were rescued by detectives on January 24.
“We have also received conclusive reports proving that the suspect had infected the two girls with a life threatening sexually transmitted disease,” said Mr Sifuna.