Nairobi News

Police have extended the remand of Mr Patrick Kioko, a man suspected of murdering a woman at a Pizza Inn outlet in Kitengela, for another 14 days.

Nairobi News has established that Mr Kioko will be arraigned in court on Monday, 24 April 2023.

“Plans are already underway to arraign him in court and the police will seek 14 more days to hold him,” a police source who spoke in confidence told Nairobi News.

Mr Kioko has already told police that he really loved Ms Gertrude Wayua Mutiso and that he was just jealous that she had left him.

In his statement to detectives attached to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the man now says he was upset when he realised Ms Wayua was meeting one of the managers at her place of work.

“This is a woman I loved so much. I was just bitter that she decided to hurt me right at our place of work,” he told the police.

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Nairobi News is yet to learn the identity of the boss Mr Kioko had problems with that led to Ms Wayua’s death.

“He told detectives investigating the matter that he was angry with Ms Wayua because she was dating one of her bosses,” said a detective privy to the ongoing investigations.

The officer further said it had emerged that the police had been made aware that Mr Kioko had threatened the deceased in the past but she never reported the matter to the police and simply sacked him.

It emerged that Mr Kioko and Ms Wayua had started their relationship while they were at Kimathi University in Nyeri County.

The suspect further told officers that he was still in pain but regretted his actions as the lady he loved so much was no more.

It is worth noting that Mr Kioko committed the crime when he was off duty.

Nairobi News has established that the deceased is the daughter of a senior police officer serving in Kiambu County.

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