Villagers hurl stones at serial killer’s grave

Kisumu, Kenya: Serial killer Harrison Okumu, who was last month strangled to death by inmates at Kisumu’s Kodiaga Maximum Prison, was buried Saturday in his home in Rabuor, Kisumu County under police watch.

A grave was quickly dug and the casket lowered, but before the grave was covered, about 300 people threw stones at the coffin to mark the Luo tradition of exorcising bad spirits associated with the wrongs committed by the dead. Not even relatives eulogised him.

In December 2014, Okumu attempted to commit suicide after he set himself ablaze in the prison cell.

Okumu was accused of killing five people after Miguye village residents unearthed human remains buried in a shallow grave next to his house.

He was arrested in August 2013 in Mombasa where he had boarded a Garissa bound bus after weeks of police tracking.