Detectives based in Kapenguria, are drafting murder charges against a suspect who killed his girlfriend and surrendered to to officers yesterday.
Nelson Baraza, 29, alias ‘TupaTupa’, walked casually to Kapenguria Police station in West Pokot county, and requested to see the DCIO over a matter he that he wanted to report.
He was led to the criminal investigations office where he told our officers that he had murdered his girlfriend and didn’t want her kin and our officers to spend valuable time looking for her.
He therefore requested the officers to accompany him to the location where he had committed the crime and left the body.
The officers who were bemused by the man’s confession questioned him further on the veracity of his claims, since such admissions are hard to come by.
But the man whose place of abode could not be immediately established, exuded a lot of confidence in his claims prompting the investigators to accompany him to the murder scene.
Upon arrival on the foot of Kamatira hills, 10 killometres away from the station, they were confronted by the body of 20-year-old Egla Chepkorir, sprawled under a tree in middle of a maize plantation.
Baraza explained to detectives that he killed Egla after he found out that she had been in a clandestine love affair with another man.
With the pain of betrayal too much to bear, he lured her to the plantation and brutally murdered her using a leso before walking to the police station to book himself for the murder.
The Kapenguria based sleuths processed the murder scene, recovered the leso used to murder the victim and arrested Baraza for the self confessed crime.
