2024-07-16 16:40:05
Bodies dumped in Kenya: 30-day extension of detention of suspected serial killer
The detention of the main suspect in the investigation was opened after the discovery of dismembered women’s bodies in a landfill in the capital of Kenya Nairobi, and which the police admitted to 42 feminicides, extended 30 days on Tuesday.
At a press conference on Monday, the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Mohammed Amin, described the suspect, Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, 33, as a “psychopathic serial killer” and a “vampire”.
Collins Jumaisi Khalusha, who was arrested on Monday morning, appeared before a court in Makadara, in the capital of Kenya, Nairobi, on Tuesday.
After the hearing, magistrate Irene Gichobi extended the suspect’s detention by 30 days for the purposes of the investigation, as requested by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
The first dismembered women’s bodies were found on Friday in the Mukuru slum, in the south of the Kenyan capital.
According to the Kenya National Commission for Human Rights (KNCHR), an official but independent body, 10 bodies, only women, have been found so far.
According to the authorities, the suspect admitted to having committed 42 murders between 2022 – the first of which was his wife – and July 2024, the night before the discovery of the first bodies.
During a search of the suspect’s house, which is located about a hundred meters from the dump, the police claimed to have discovered 24 SIM cards and a machete which, according to Mohamed Amin, was used “to dismember the victims”.
In 2022, Kenya recorded 725 cases of femicide, according to a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
The police were heavily criticized after finding the first bodies, because the dump is located less than 100 meters from a police station.
The acting head of the national police, Douglas Kanja, promised on Sunday that “transparent, thorough and quick investigations” would be carried out, stressing that the police officers from the police station located near the dump had been transferred to another place.
On Friday, the Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) announced it was investigating possible police involvement in the killings.
This situation comes because the Kenyan security forces have been under pressure since the death of many people in June during protests against the government’s proposed tax increases.
NGOs accuse the police of disproportionate repression by firing live ammunition at demonstrators.
The police are feared in Kenya, and are regularly accused of murders and extrajudicial executions.
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