Murder

Police officer sentenced to death for shooting lawyer dead
By Agencies | 2 months ago
A Nigerian court on Monday sentenced to death a police officer convicted of shooting dead a pregnant female lawyer on Christmas Day in 2022, likely ig...

Grandson arrested over murder of his 61-year-old grandmother
By Lucy Njogu | 6 months ago
A teenage grandson is in police custody after evidence linked him to the murder of his grandmother. According to detectives, evidence retrieved in a p...

Nyeri: 58-year-old man hangs self after killing his wife using hammer
By Loise Wambugu | 6 months ago
Police in Mathira Sub-county in Nyeri County have launched investigations to establish the circumstances under which a 44-year-old Community health vo...

25-year-old man arrested in connection with spate of murders in Isiolo
By Wycliffe Nyamasege | 7 months ago
Police in Isiolo are holding a 25-year-old man over links to a spate of murders in the county. In a statement on Friday, May 19, the National Police S...

Kitengela man claims he killed lover after she dumped him for their boss
By Sophie Njoka | 8 months ago
A man suspected of killing his former girlfriend inside a pizza shop in Kitengela, Kajiado county, now claims he committed the crime after learning th...

IPOA launches probe after police allegedly kill boda boda chairman during protests in Chuka
By Wycliffe Nyamasege | 8 months ago
The Independent Policing and Oversight Authority (IPOA) has launched investigations into the killing of a man during protests at Chuka town in Tharaka...

Man surrenders to police after strangling wife in Kitui
By Zipporah Ngwatu | 9 months ago
Police are interrogating a middle-aged man for allegedly killing his wife by strangling her with a rope at their rented house in Kitui town. The suspe...

Shock as womán hacks husband to death in Makueni
By Zipporah Ngwatu | 9 months ago
Police are holding a woman over the murder of her husband in Kaiti, Makueni county. Police reports indicate that Veronica Mutisya hacked her husband t...

80-year-old German national found killed, eye gouged out in Kajiado
By Christine Musa | 9 months ago
Police have launched investigations after an 80-year-old German national was killed by unknown assailants at Esampukike village in Loodokilani, Kajiad...

Shock as man kills lover, buries her body under the bed in Kirinyaga
By Wycliffe Nyamasege | 9 months ago
Police officers in Mwea East, Kirinyaga county, are looking for a man believed to have murdered his lover before burying her body in a shallow grave u...