Written By John Mutiso 📝
Homicide detectives have made a significant breakthrough in investigating the murder of 6-year-old Beverly Mumo Musyoki, who was brutally murdered by her father Robinson Musyoki and stepmother Rose Muteti.
“After conducting fresh investigations into the murder, which had earlier been dismissed as the work of ‘powers of darkness’, the homicide experts opened a fresh can of worms linking the two to the murder most foul and arrested them yesterday at Emali, in Makueni county,’ DCI disclosed to the public through its official Twitter page.
According to the DCI, Beverly’s birth mother, Naomi Kiamba, learned of her daughter’s death via a phone call from her ex-husband on August 24, 2020.
“She learnt of the death of her daughter through a phone call from her ex-husband, who called her on August 24, 2020, and informed her that he was headed to Montezuma funeral home, since their daughter had fallen sick and died,” DCI’s tweet read in part.
Naomi then went to the funeral home only to be met by her daughter’s lifeless body, which was covered in bruises.
Dr. Johansen Oduor, the leading government pathologist at the time, stated that the cause of death was blunt force trauma, implying that the child died as a result of injuries associated with child abuse.
According to homicide detectives, after Beverly’s parents’ violent divorce, a children’s court ordered Robinson to stay with the children for one month, from October 29, 2019 to December 5, 2020, before returning them to their mother.
“That was the last time Naomi saw her daughter alive, since her ex-husband, an engineer at the Kenya Pipeline, never returned the children and stopped picking up her calls,” the investigators stated.
According to investigations, Robinson had married another lady and moved in to live with her in an unknown location, which she (Naomi) was unaware of.
Naomi went back to court on December, 16, 2019 and obtained a warrant of arrest against Robinson which was served to the OCS Industrial Area police station.
Robinson was nowhere to be found until almost a year later, when he called Naomi with the devastating news of their daughter’s demise.
The detectives have also established that the deceased’s 11-year-old brother who is a key witness in this case had received threats to his life, if he revealed what had happened prior to his sister’s death.
The two suspects are currently facing murder charges at Machakos High Court.
