Mystery Murder: Did Parents Strangle Their Two Sons?
Mystery surrounds an incident in Kakamega County where two brothers were found dead on their beds, a confirmed strangulation case. Their parents are prime suspects in the murder.
Lydia Kadima 
The two boys, aged seven and four, were students at Kakamega Hill School and were barely home for two days when they met their demise.
Their mother, a nurse in a Kakamega town hospital, is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) after allegedly attempting suicide at her house. She is a suspect in the murders.
According to a security guard, the two boys were found dead a few minutes after the husband arrived at the place. At around 3 am, the wife had requested the security guard to admit someone in, who turned out to be her husband.
Neighbours said that the two, husband and wife, frequently disagreed and thus were living separately.
After some few minutes, the pair returned to the gate and told the guard both their sons were dead. The husband led the guard to the house then to the boy’s bedroom, where he saw the boys’ lifeless bodies.
“I touched them, and they were very cold, an indication they were already dead,” said the security guard.
It was initially suspected that the cause of death was poisoning but later emerged to be strangulation, prompting detectives to review the CCTV footage from cameras fitted on and around the apartment.
“We ruled out poisoning as was earlier suspected. The postmortem test revealed that it was a case of strangulation, a poison test must be done in a government laboratory, and we ruled it out,” said the county’s pathologist, Dickson Muchana.
The husband denied responding to the incident when The Nairobian contacted him. “The matter is under investigation, and for now, I cannot comment on it. Let’s allow the police to do their work,” he said.
The husband is a person of interest in the case, but he is yet to be arrested as there is no evidence pinning him directly to the murders.
