Sleuths attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Thursday re-arrested Michael Mutunga who is accused of ending the life of a Catholic Priest in Embu County.
Mutunga is accused of ending the life of Father Michael Maingi Kyengo on October 8, 2019 and his remains were later found buried in a shallow grave on a dry riverbed known as Gathingiri in Embu.
His arrest comes just days after he was released on bond by a court just days after he was arrested by police.
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“Detectives had painstakingly investigated the murder and arrested the main suspect with crucial exhibits linking him to the crime. The exhibits included a sharp knife suspected to be the murder weapon and some of his blood-stained clothes which he had tried to wash in vain,” a statement by the DCI read in part.
Detectives said that in unbelievable turn of events, the suspect was released on a Sh300,000 cash bail upon arraignment at the Embu High Court.
The suspect immediately went into hiding and failed to appear in court, forcing the court to issue a warrant for his arrest.
He went into hiding but detectives who have been trailing him managed to smoke him out of his hideout in Nairobi.