DCI Arrest Murder Suspect Who Poisoned Wife And Friend
In a thrilling chase along the Nyeri-Nairobi highway, a special squad of police from the Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) captured a murder suspect.
Margaret Mwanzia 
The culprit is believed to have eluded the investigators for a week, requiring them to seek support from their digital forensic department, according to a statement released by the DCI on Saturday, April 2.
The 28-year-old man accused of murdering his wife and her companion had eluded capture earlier in Nairobi's Dandora estate when the second squad of policemen was dispatched to apprehend him, according to police.
The suspect eluded the dragnet as investigators from the Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau (CRIB), DCI Nairobi Regional Headquarters, and Dandora closed in on him at his hiding in Dandora, throwing a spanner in the investigators' efforts.
"Determined to bring the culprit to justice," the statement said, "the detectives went back to the drawing board and used Cyber and Digital Forensics capabilities supplied at the DCI National Forensic Laboratory."
After realizing that a squad of officers was chasing him, the suspect was finally cornered along a busy highway on his way back to Nairobi.
"A lean team of three quick men was dispatched to Embu, and as their hatchback descended the meandering highway towards the Sagana River bridge, the sleuths got word that the suspect was on his way back to Nairobi in an attempt to outfox them.
“What followed was an immediate change of mission and a dramatic arrest along the highway as the suspect was ejected from a vehicle he had boarded, in a well-coordinated operation monitored at The suspect was detained and given a lift to the capital,” according to the police.
Preliminary investigations show that the 28-year-old tainted the food he made with poison before feeding it to his wife and a visitor, according to DCI.
"On that fateful day, his wife declined to cook since she was entertaining a guest, forcing the irritated husband to enter the kitchen." The incident occurred when the suspect was preparing an evening meal of rice and stew, which he laced with an undisclosed poison and served to the two women before escaping, according to the DCI.
The male was also taken to the Dandora Police Station and is awaiting arraignment in a court of law, according to the police.
"On Monday, the suspect will be arraigned for the dual murders of the two women, in violation of Section 203 as read with Section 204 of the Penal Code," DCI added.
