The Moi’s Bridge Killer

Serial Killer on the Prowl…….

Shock of nine girls defiled and killed

June 19, 2021

Nation Media Group

Dusty walls of silos and rusty roofs welcome one to Moi’s Bridge town on the border of Uasin Gishu and Trans Nzoia counties.

The appearance gives one an impression of a serene town, but looks can be deceiving. For the last three years, the town has been the epicentre of distressing serial killings targeting young girls. At least nine of them have been defiled and murdered and their bodies dumped in thickets that are in a 300 metres radius.

Parents are living in fear as residents associate the killings with rituals. The recent death was that of Linda Jerotich, 13, who was murdered in Moi’s Bridge a week ago.

A 300m journey to a nearby salon turned fatal. “She left home in a jovial mood heading to a salon where she does her hair regularly. That was the last time we interacted with her,” said Brian Kiplimo, a cousin.

The girl went missing for four days before her mutilated body was discovered by a herder in a maize plantation near Moi’s Bridge National Cereal and Produce (NCPB).

Police have arrested one suspect in connection with the heinous act.

An Eldoret court allowed police to detain the suspect for seven days pending investigations.

Some metres away from Jeruto’s uncle’s home, the family of Mary Eluza,14, who was defiled and murdered, after she went missing on December 19, 2020, is still mourning.

Genesis of killings
Her body was discovered a day later by a villager who was tilling his maize crop.

Mary was coming from Moi’s Bridge township, from her father’s shop, taking home some sacks when she was picked by unknown people.

“I had given her some sacks to take to her mother for maize storage . After some time, I called my wife to find out if she had reached home, only to be told she was yet to arrive,” recounted Mr Geoffrey Omega.

Mr Omega said that he closed his shop and mobilised villagers to start a search.

Her body, which was placed in a sack, was discovered a day later near a dam, together with sacks that her father had given her to take home.

“I suspect this might be ritual killing, where our children are being sacrificed. The mode of killing and abduction seem to be the same for all the nine children from this area,” said Mr Omega.

He accused police of doing little to establish the genesis of the killing of minors.

“The police are reluctant to help us unravel the serial killers. I was forced to take back the clothes of my daughter, which were being kept as evidence,” said Mr Omega.

Went missing
Ironically, on the same day, December 19, 2019, another minor, Staicy Nabiso,11, went missing in a similar manner.

Staicy was sent by her mother, Sharon Sakwa, to buy vegetables from a vendor well-known to her.

“It was around 6:30pm. I sent my daughter to purchase vegetables from my regular customer about 200 metres from our home. That was the last time I saw her,” said Ms Sakwa.

The body of Staicy was discovered along a railway line after 12 days.

“I will never forgive the killers of my only daughter,” said Ms Sakwa.

She accused police of laxity after releasing two suspects arrested in connection with the murder of her daughter, who was also defiled.

“Why did they release the suspects even before informing us? I had clues that linked the suspect with the killing of my daughter,” said Ms Sakwa.

An Eldoret court released the suspects for what prosecution termed as lack of evidence.

Defiled and killed
Sarah Njeri’s, 11, body was found on a farm in June last year. Njeri was reported missing in May that year only to end up as another victim of the spate of killings.

Her mother, who is still grief-stricken, is yet to come to terms with what happened.

“To date, I am yet to believe what my eyes saw. There were parts of her body scattered, some were missing. If anyone had a grudge with me, why kill my innocent angel?” she said.

A post-mortem report on all minors confirmed that they were defiled before being killed.

Uasin Gishu police commander Ayub Ali Gitonga said more investigations are being conducted by detectives to unravel the killings.

Mr Gitonga said the arrest of one suspect in connection with recent killing is likely to give police a new direction.

He appealed to residents to provide more information to enable police to unravel the murders.

Kenya: Uasin Gishu police arrest five following rape and murder of children – ritual murder suspected

July 7, 2020

Daily Nation

Police in Moi’s Bridge have arrested five people on suspicion of being serial killers and defilers.

Five children have been found murdered in the town in seven months.

The arrests came after protests by Nominated Ward Representative Belinda Tirop and area residents.

Locals say the crimes could be linked to ritual killings.

Uasin Gishu county police chief Johnston Ipara praised the residents of Soy Sub-County for providing information that led to the arrests.

He added that more people would be arrested and prosecuted.

MISSING FOR A MONTH

The county police boss said the five have already appeared in court as police pursue two other people still at large.

“Detectives on the ground are gathering crucial information to link the pair to the ones who have already been arrested,” he said.

Early in the year, a man and his daughter were arraigned for the murder of a 12-year-old girl.

The two were freed when the prosecution said it could not link them to the heinous crime.

Mr Ipara said those freed by courts are still being investigated.

“We have not given up on the suspects. They could be rearrested,” the county police commander said.

MUTILATED BODY

Two weeks ago, the mutilated body of Grace Njeri, who had been missing for a month, was found in a thicket.

This was the fifth child killing in six months.

On December 31, Ms Sharon Sakwa’s daughter was killed in a similar fashion.

The girl, Stacy Nabiswa, was a Standard Five pupil.

She disappeared on New Year’s Eve and her body found near the railway line the following day.

Ms Sakwa accused police of doing little to apprehend the perpetrators of the crimes.

Thirteen-year-old Lucy Wanjiru was defiled and killed on January 16.

Her mother, a greengrocer, was at the market when the murder occurred.

FREED FOR LACK OF EVIDENCE

Wanjiru’s stepfather was arrested but released later due to lack of evidence.

The girl was a Standard Six pupil at Moi Township Primary School.

Two weeks ago, local leaders and residents held a demonstration on the Kitale-Eldoret road to protest the killings. They accused security agents of doing little to stop them.

In response to the protests, Mr Ipara urged residents to provide information that would lead to arrests and prosecutions.

Mr Ipara, however, challenged parents to monitor their children.

“Let us be responsible and watchful if we are to eradicate these incidents,” Mr Ipara said.

He advised families to ensure children do not go to the shop or market unaccompanied

Killer makes a mistake…

Protests as body of missing girl dumped near state agency staff quarters

June 15th 2021

The Standard

If a maize plantation near the staff residence of a state agency would talk, it would tell the horrific ordeal that Linda Jerono faced before her cruel death.

Jerono, 13, had gone missing from her aunt’s home in Moi’s Bridge town, Uasin Gishu County last Friday before her lifeless, mutilated body was discovered in a maize farm near the staff quarters of National Cereals and produce Board by workers yesterday.

The teenager sat the 2020 KCPE exams at Little Dreams in Eldama Ravine, Baringo County and was expecting to join secondary school.

She traveled to Moi’s Bridge on Sunday June 6, with her aunt Nancy Chebet, an NCPB employee, just five days before her disappearance.

Her body was discovered in a maize plantation the same day Form One selection was being announced.

On the day she went missing, Jerono left home at 11am for a salon within Moi’s Bridge town, but she didn’t reach the hairdresser’s shop, sparking fears among her relatives and prompting an agonizing search that ended with the shocking discovery of her mutilated body.

The discovery of the body sparked outrage and protests by irate Moi’s Bridge residents who claimed Jerono’s death was the ninth case of disappearance of teenage girls whose bodies have been found dumped in maize plantations and bushes.

Her aunt said her niece left the house at 11am on Friday and was to meet her at her workplace before going to the salon, but she failed to show up, prompting her to call her husband.

Chebet said she brought Jerono to Moi’s Bridge like she has been doing school holidays, only for her to disappear and her body discovered about half a kilometre from her house.

“I often bring my niece here (Moi’s Bridge) so that I get time to mentor her. We don’t have parents and I play the role of the grandmother,” Chebet told The Standard.

Jerono’s killers, audaciously dumped her body less than 20 metres from government residential houses and about 150 metres away from Moi’s Bridge assistant chief, Eliud Kositany’s home.

The deceased’s teenager’s father Harrison Kinyua said members of his family had not slept since Friday when his daughter was reported missing. She had scored 288 marks in Primary school, the father said.

Kinyua said he arrived in Moi’s Bridge at 2am on Saturday after he was informed that his second-born daughter was missing.

“I loved my daughter so much. She was polite and intelligent. I hope I will get to know her killers and why they took away my daughter’s life,” Kinyua said.

“Linda (Jerono) loved my sister because she is her mentor. She is my children’s mentor.”

The discovery of the body at 9.30am yesterday sparked violent protests.

In CCTV footage captured at a petrol station near her aunt’s house, Jerono is seen following a man donning a red T-Shirt and gumboots. The footage shows the man walking in an empty field at Moi’s bridge with the girl following her from behind towards the maize plantation where she was found dead.

Locals engaged police after the body of the missing girl was discovered that brought business in Moi’s Bridge town along the busy Eldoret-Kitale to a standstill as angry locals engaged police in running battles.

The irate locals barricaded the highway by burning tryes while hurling stones at Moi’s Bridge police station for several hours. The crowds of angry youth were dispersed at 2:30pm but returned barely 20 minutes later, demanding justice for the families who have lost teenage daughters in the last two years.

The police were forced to use tear gas canisters and shooting in the air to disperse rowdy crowds but to no avail.

Moi’s Bridge police officers were forced to seek reinforcement from their counterparts attached to Matunda and Eldoret Central Police Stations as the running battles intensified.

The youth camped outside until 5.30pm when they were calmed by Uasin Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago.

“We believe that this is a cult. We have lost nine girls in the last one and half years. We want the police to review the CCTV footage and produce the culprit,” a resident Maurice Oduor said.

Soy sub-county police commander Nehemiah Bitok said the police are reviewing the CCTV footage as they hunt the suspect.

“The CCTV footage is part of the leads we are exploiting. We are also urging the public to come out with crucial information that will help unmask the killers,” Bitok said.

The police commander said the deceased girl may have been sexually abused before she was murdered.

“She had injuries all over her body. The body has been taken to a mortuary in Kitale for postmortem,” he said.

“I came to the station recently and I have been informed that there have been several other similar cases.”

He said the youth who attacked Moi’s Bridge police station were demanding the release of a suspect.

Child killer arrested….

The Moi’s Bridge Killer: Evans Juma Wanjala

DCI names self-confessed serial killer ahead of court date

Saturday, July 17, 2021

Nation Media Group

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has revealed the identity of the suspect behind bizarre killings of minors in Moi’s Bridge.

Mr Evans Juma Wanjala, who evaded arrest for more than two years, was arrested on June 16 after CCTV footage showed him in the company of his latest victim, 13-year-old Linda Cherono.

Via its social media channels on Saturday, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) gave a report in which it identified the man as Evans Wanjala Juma.

The DCI said he committed the crimes between December 31, 2019 and June 15, meaning he escaped the police drag net for more than two years.

Earlier, residents had told journalists that the suspect was a familiar person but that his home of origin was not well known.

It is said Mr Juma had been targeting young girls under the age of 15.

“The minors all aged between the age of 10 and 15 were lured by the suspect from different locations within Moi’s Bridge in Uasin-Gishu county, before being taken to secluded areas where he defiled and strangled them,” the DCI said.

The DCI further said detectives established that Mr Juma is a “habitual offender with pending warrants of arrest against him”.

It said that in 2018, he defiled two minors in Kibwezi and was arraigned but released on bond.

“After his release he immediately went into hiding prompting a warrant of arrest to be issued against him by the Makindu Law Courts.”

Crime scenes
In killings that appear similar to those reported in Nairobi, linked to self-confessed serial killer Masten Milimu Wanjala, Mr Juma on Wednesday took detectives to five crime scenes in Moi’s Bridge — the sprawling township on the border of Uasin Gishu, Trans Nzoia, and Kakamega.

He guided a team of detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the homicide department and forensics experts from Nairobi who were in the company of senior detectives from Uasin Gishu County.

“He told us whenever he kills the minors he feels relieved and at peace,” an officer said on condition of anonymity.

Most of the scenes the suspect took the detectives to were thickets near maize plantations and pools of water. At the locations, detectives collected evidence that will help with Mr Juma’s prosecution once he is arraigned.

In what was yet another case of horrifying child kidnappings and killings, Mr Juma narrated how he murdered the five minors.

“During the re-enactment, homicide detectives, augmented by their scenes of crime, and photographic and acoustics counterparts, documented forensically each of the five murder scenes, as the executioner demonstrated how he abducted, defiled, murdered and dumped the bodies of the minors,” the DCI said.

The victims
Cherono went missing on June 11, only for her body to be found on June 15 near Baharini dam, behind the premises of the National Cereals and Produce Board in Moi’s Bridge.

Njeri, 12 disappeared on May 21, 2020 and her body was found on June 18, 2020, at Soronoi farm.

Nabiso went missing on December 31, 2019 while her body recovered from River Nzoia on January 1, 2020.

Elusa was defiled and murdered after going missing on December 19, 2020, while Wanjiru was defiled and killed on January 16.

Post-mortem examination of all the minors revealed they were defiled before being killed. Some of their bodies were hidden in sacks.

This weekend, distraught families relived the horrors of their children’s deaths yet again after a team of forensic detectives from the homicide unit of the DCI visited the five crime scenes, some 10 kilometres apart, as they pieced together crucial evidence to send the suspect to jail.

The parents accompanied detectives and a contingent of police officers to the scenes as the suspect gave accounts of the macabre acts he said he committed.

Two weeks ago, an Eldoret court allowed police to detain the suspect for 21 days for further investigations.

Uasin Gishu County Police Commander Ayub Ali said he will be taken to court next week and charged with murder.

Anatomy of a Killer…

Inside the child killing fields of Moi’s Bridge

July 16, 2021

Daily Nation

From afar, the lush maize fields and thickets of Moi’s Bridge — the sprawling township on the border of Uasin Gishu, Trans Nzoia, and Kakamega counties — show no signs of the horror stories they harbour.

Here, in thickets and maize fields, five children between ages 10 and 14 have been found murdered in the last seven months alone.

And there is one man that ties them together, the blood-curdling stories of mutilated bodies dumped in different sections of the town, leaving parents and families devastated and unsure why their children became victims.

Postmortem reports on all the children revealed that they were defiled before being killed. In most cases, the bodies were found stuffed in bags.

The families relived the horror of their children’s deaths again on Wednesday when a team of forensic detectives from the homicide unit in the Directorate of Criminal Investigations visited the five crime scenes, some 10km apart, as they pieced together crucial evidence to send the unnamed suspect to jail.

Dressed in a white overall, the suspect shared with detectives a blow-by-blow account of how he executed the macabre killings on different occasions.

The suspect, now in police custody, was apprehended after a CCTV camera captured him walking with Linda Jeruto, 13, who was later found dead. The girl had been missing for four days before her mutilated body was discovered.

A 300-metre journey to a nearby shop turned out to be the last day that Linda was seen alive. Her body was discovered in a maize plantation near the Moi’s Bridge National Cereals and Produce storage facility by a villager herding livestock.

On Wednesday, parents of the victims accompanied detectives and a contingent of police officers to the scenes as the suspect gave accounts of his heinous acts.

Uasin Gishu County police Commandant Ayub Ali told the Nation they had made a breakthrough in preliminary investigations into the killings, with the evidence linking the suspect to the murders.

“The suspect has confessed to committing these murders. The suspect is very cooperative. We want to urge the families to be patient and we are working to ensure that they get justice,” the police boss said on Thursday.

A court allowed police to hold the suspect for 21 days.

With renewed hope, families of the victims appealed to detectives to unravel the mystery of their children’s deaths.

Geoffrey Omega’s daughter, Mary Eluza, 14, went missing on December 19, 2020. The following day, her body was discovered by a villager tending to his maize crop. She had been defiled and murdered.

“Some of us had lost hope of ever getting justice but we are now optimistic after the team took over the investigations. What we want is justice for our innocent children,” Mr Omega said on Wednesday.

Mary’s body, stuffed in a sack, was discovered near a dam the day after she disappeared. Next to her were the sacks that her father had given her to take home.

The teenager was coming from Moi’s Bridge township from her father’s shop.

Yesterday, parents of the victims, while pleased that an arrest had been made, said they believed the suspect was a front for a gang terrorising villagers through child killings.

They demanded that detectives cast their net wider and get the suspect to name his co-conspirators.

“This suspect provided detailed information about how the killings occurred. However, I have never seen the suspect and I believe that he must have been working with other people who knew our children… we want to urge investigators not to leave any stone unturned on this matter,” said Sharon Sakwa, whose daughter was murdered last December.

Like the other children found murdered, Ms Sakwa’s daughter, Stacy, a Standard Five pupil, had been sent on December 31 by her mother to buy vegetables from a vendor well known to her mother.

She disappeared and her body was found near a railway line behind Moi’s Bridge town the following day, about a kilometre from where the suspect reportedly picked up the girl.

“My daughter was an active, disciplined and hardworking girl. We are still in shock. We have not recovered yet from the loss. We had so much hope in these children and we want detectives to help us get justice,” Ms Sakwa said.

In another incident, on June 2020, the mutilated body of Grace Njeri, who had been missing for a month, was found in a thicket.

Her mother Loise Muthoni is yet to come to terms with the painful loss of her daughter. She had to relocate from the township for fear of her life.

“It is a really painful experience for parents to lose their children in such a manner. We are still in shock why this suspect decided to engage in this evil act,” she said.

On January 16, 13-year-old Lucy Wanjiru was defiled and killed. The girl was a Standard Six pupil at Moi Township Primary School. Her mother, a greengrocer, was at the market when the murder occurred.

Uasin Gishu child killer had skipped trial for defiling 2 girls in Makueni

July 31, 2021

Nation Media Group

A man who has confessed to killing five children at Moi’s Bridge in Uasin Gishu County was once a popular mason in Makueni but fled to escape trial for defiling two girls, the Nation has established.

Evans Juma Wanjala is locked up at Kitale Police Station. He is said to have committed the crimes between 2019 and last month when homicide detectives pounced on him. On Thursday last week, police were allowed to detain him for 21 more days.

Investigations into his crimes are expected to extend to various townships in the Kibwezi region of Makueni County where he lived in 2018 and 2019 and is facing charges of sexually molesting two girls.

The first incident, involving a 9-year-old, happened in Kibwezi township on September 19, 2018, court documents seen by the Nation show.

The second took place on the outskirts of Kinyambu township barely three months after the first and involved a teenager who had just completed secondary school.

People who interacted with the suspect described him as reserved. Although details on how he arrived in Makueni are scanty, he is believed to have come from neighboring Kajiado County in 2018.

He met his girlfriend Caroline Mwikali in Kambu township, where he once lived. The couple later relocated to a rented house in Kinyambu township, where she was a casual worker at the Kinyambu library.

Terrorised girls and women
The man, who usually kept to himself, spent his days at construction sites in the neighbourhood, multiple accounts say. He presented himself as a specialist in fixing floor tiles, said a landlord, who sought anonymity for fear of victimisation.

Towards the end of 2018, Mr Wanjala raised eyebrows after reports surfaced that he waylaid and terrorised girls and women on their way to and from Kinyambu township.

On a Sunday afternoon in January 2019, he was accosted by an irate mob at the market and beaten up after word went round that he was a sex pest. Police officers patrolling the area responded swiftly and saved his skin.

“We kicked Caroline Mwikali out of the library when we learned that she was cohabiting with a suspected sex pest,” said Patrick Mutiso, the head of the Kinyambu library.

Nobody saw Mr Wanjala and his fiancée leave. They left as they had come. They tiptoed out of their rented house in the wee hours of the night one day and switched off their mobile phones, leaving behind huge debts and a trail of victims yearning for justice.

Mr Wanjala had just secured his freedom after raising Sh200,000 cash bail for the first case involving the 9-year-old and a Sh100,000 surety for the second case involving the teenager as ordered by a Makindu court.

When he failed several times to attend court while out on bond, the court issued an arrest warrant on November 7, 2019.

Raped and murder
When word went round that detectives had arrested Mr Wanjala in connection with killing girls, the parents of the two girls he is accused of raping and some of the people he had interacted with him were as shocked as they were overjoyed.

“We hope that the arrest of Evans Juma Wanjala will rejuvenate our cases, which are pending at the Makindu law courts. Meanwhile, the suspect should not be set free until the matters he is facing are concluded,” the distraught mother of one of the girls told the Nation.

Those cautiously optimistic following Mr Wanjala’s arrest include Suzanne Machira, a librarian at the Kinyambu library who helped Ms Mwikali raise the required bail to secure her boyfriend’s freedom.

“They fled with my Sh15,000. I desperately tried in vain to recover the money but when they fled and switched off their phones I hit a wall. The arrest has renewed hope that I will recover the money,” she said.

Ms Machira’s experience mirrors that of Mzee Julius Mwanzia Kikaakaa, who gave out the logbook of his brand-new motorcycle and Sh50,000 he borrowed from a relative to secure the man’s freedom.

He was persuaded by one of his granddaughters who is known to Ms Mwikali. The ailing peasant farmer has been struggling to raise the remaining Sh50,000. The court expects the money by September 2.

“The Makindu law courts should surrender my money and motorcycle logbook now that Evans Juma is behind bars,” the 74-year-old told the Nation at his home in Kalungu village.

Lover of accused child killer Evans Wanjala speaks out

Tuesday, August 03, 2021

Nation Media Group

A woman who cohabited for three years with Evans Juma Wanjala, who confessed last month to killing five children after defiling them in Moi’s Bridge township in Uasin Gishu County, has thrown him under the bus.

Caroline Mwongeli, 36, relocated to her parents’ home in Kwa Kinyuti, Makueni County, after detectives netted her disgraced partner a month ago.

Ms Mwongeli was struggling to find her footing in the countryside that she had left three years earlier as an Eldoret law court allowed police to detain Wanjala longer to complete investigations into the killings and his other alleged crimes.

The extended time, detectives argued, would help them build a strong case against the suspected paedophile and murderer by consolidating cases of missing children reported in Uasin Gishu County between 2018 and earlier this year with at least three pending rape cases he is facing in Kajiado and Makueni counties.

Ms Mwongeli was unnerved when police played her CCTV footage that places Wanjala at the centre of one of the Moi’s Bridge crime scenes.

The mother of four and grandmother of one was not prepared for the berating from her neighbours and relatives that awaited her at home.

Three police officers and a local administrator had to shield Ms Mwongeli as she moved out of her Moi’s Bridge house with two of her children, bags full of clothing, assorted furniture and other household items she had jointly acquired with Wanjala as angry residents demanded retribution.

“Evans has put my life in danger, humiliated and distressed me to a breaking point. He should rot in jail,” an emotional Ms Mwongeli told the Nation on Sunday, in a marked change of heart towards a lover she had previously gone the extra mile to defend.

Ms Mwongeli had met Wanjala three years ago in Kambu, Makueni. A highly sought-after mason, he was part of a team renovating a local church while she worked at a local eatery.

“After a short while, Evans asked for my hand in marriage but I expressed reservations because I already had three children from other relationships,” she recalled, her eyes welling up with tears.

“Surprisingly, he had no issues with my family. I moved into his rented house in Kibwezi township.”

Ms Mwongeli, now heavily pregnant with Wanjala’s child, would become handy when her lover was arrested and charged with defiling a pupil in Kibwezi.

She mobilised her friends and relatives and raised Sh200,000 to secure his freedom. An uncle of hers, Wambua Muyombo, deposited his land title deed with the court and later paid the money.

But the community became hostile, forcing the lovebirds to relocate. They moved to Kinyambu, 10km away, where Ms Mwongeli landed a casual job at the Kinyambu Library.

“Evans was hardworking. He spent most of his time at construction sites. At home he was a caring and loving husband. He vehemently denied the defilement allegation and I trusted him,” she said.

“He came out as someone who could not hurt a fly. He was a reserved man who kept to himself. The only thing that got me concerned is that he did not get along with his relatives and did not explain the reason.”

Before the dust had settled, Wanjala was charged with a second sexual offence – raping a teenager on the outskirts of Kinyambu.

Irate mob
An irate mob accosted and beat him up at the market on a Sunday afternoon before police officers patrolling the area rescued him. The rape allegations badly strained his relationships in Kibwezi and Kinyambu but his girlfriend firmly stood by his side.

Ms Mwongeli’s mother Mutindi Kimuli told the Nation that she had tried in vain to separate her daughter from Wanjala in the wake of the sexual offences allegations.

At the library where Ms Mwongeli worked, management decided to make her pay for living with a suspected paedophile.

“We kicked Caroline out of the library when we learned that she was cohabiting with a suspected sex pest,” said Patrick Mutiso, the head of Kinyambu Library.

Before she left Kinyambu, Ms Mwongeli had borrowed Sh15,000 from Suzanne Machira, a senior librarian who has since written off the money as a bad debt.

A Makindu court set Wanjala free after Ms Mwongeli secured a Sh100,000 surety. She used Sh6,000 to convince Mzee Julius Mwanzia Kikaakaa to offer to the court ownership documents to his brand-new motorcycle.

The suspect jumped bail and switched off his phone, prompting the court to issue an arrest warrant on November 7 that year. The couple had relocated to Moi’s Bridge, leaving behind huge debts and concerted calls for justice.