Three held as police exhume body in murder suspect's house

 

Police in Kisumu are holding three people suspected of killing and burying a middle aged man in one of the suspects house.

Kisumu West Director of Criminal Investigations Abel Kavoo Monday led the exhumation exercise of the body at Kanyawegi village, in Usare.

According to Kavoo, concerned residents reported to police after strong stench started coming out of the suspect's house on January 1.

At the time, the suspect had stopped staying in his house, and was being hosted at a neighbor's house.

When police visited the scene, they discovered a heap of soil at the middle of the sitting room, with the strong stench.

When they followed up on the whereabouts of the owner of the house, they found him at the neighbour's house, where some blood strains were also discovered.

"We arrested the two, and grilled them before seeking court order to exhume the body," said Kavoo.

And today (Monday), the officers managed to get greenlight from the courts, and proceeded to the scene where they exhumed the body and moved it to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital Mortuary.

Mr Kavoo said the suspects were co-operating with the investigators, and they are likely to be charged with murder.

By the time of going to press, the deceased had not been identified, with Mr Kavoo asking the public to come out and help locating the kins of the deceased who appeared to be a man in his early 30s.

"The body is very decomposed and could not be identified, hence we will be relying on other methods of identification," he said.

At the time of exhumation, the body was found to have been wrapped in a blanket, a trouser, and a shirt.?