Form 4 student kills father for disrupting ‘private time’ with girlfriend

Police in Bungoma have arrested a Form Four student for killing his father on Sunday night.

Brian Wekesa, 21, assaulted his dad, 45, and thereafter fatally slashed him in the arms with a machete after the parent “disrupted Wekesa’s private time with his girlfriend”. The incident happened at Khayinga Village in Kanduyi Constituency.

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) says the suspect’s father, a Juakali worker, “had gone to his son’s house to inquire on his habitual absenteeism from school, only to find enjoying a romantic with a lady”.

“Enraged at the father's intrusion, the 21-year-old suspect landed on him with blows and kicks, before inflicting deep cuts on his head and arms with a machete,” said the DCI on Facebook on Monday, February 1.

Neighbours responded to distress calls by the suspect’s father. They, however, arrived when the victim had already died from severe bleeding, police said.

The suspect, a learner at Kisuluni Secondary School, managed to escape, but was arrested by authorities, who tracked him down to a friend’s house.

“He is being processed for arraignment,” the DCI said Monday.