BY PHOEBE WANJOHI.
A landlady and a caretaker have been charged before a Nairobi court with accessory to murder.
Nancy Wanja Njuguna and Nicholas Kimathi appeared before Milimani Senior Principal Magistrate Bernard Ochoi and denied the charge.
The two are accused that on May 30, this year at a house Number 9 in Umoja II estate in Nairobi, they assisted David Migwi Kariuki in disposing off the body of unknown female adult.
The court heard that the move was meant to aid Migwi to escape punishment for murder.
They were released on a bond of Ksh200,000 or an alternative cash bail of Ksh 100,000.
The case will be mentioned on July 1, for further directions.
Investigations by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, the 42-year-old Migwi was arrested following the discovery of dismembered body parts of a monstrously murdered woman.
The body was discovered at Tumaini Pry School playground in Umoja II on May 31, 2020.
The DCI had on its Twitter page stated that they were investigating the murder and linked it to a house at a nearby Amani Estate where the occupant (David Migwi) had since moved from.
He kept the body in the house for several days, and only disposed it in a sack after the odour from its decomposing parts became unbearable.
It further state that on April 17, 2019, the same suspect was captured on CCTV walking out of Green Club along Latema Road in Nrb CBD with a lady, a few hours before the dismembered body parts of a woman were found dumped in different locations.
The head, arms and legs had been dumped at Umoja dumpsite and the torso later found along Landhies Road.
DNA analysis on the body parts later matched that of 36-year-old Penina Wairimu Njeri, the woman he had walked with from the club.
The suspect disappeared and has been on the run until the DCI officers pounced on him on Tuesday.
