The proverbial 40 days of a thief finally reached for a robbery suspect who was part of a gang that attempted to stage a robbery last night, but was cornered by irate neighbours who crushed him to a pulp.
According to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the suspect was part of a miscreant gang that had jumped into the compound of a villager in Gitaru within Kabete, Kiambu county, but their mission aborted when the home owner heard echoes of their feet clomp loudly in his compound and raised alarm.
According to the reportee identified as Chege wa Maguta, he was dead asleep at around 4 am when he heard sudden thuds occasioned by what he initially assumed in his slumber, were objects falling from the skies.
“Moments later, the tempo of the footsteps increased clomp! clomp! clomp! followed by miserable bleats of his sheep prompting him to ask his wife in exasperation, whether she had also heard the commotion. Wa Chege!, Icio ni mburi ciakwa? ii nicio! (Are those my goats? Yes yes, they’re the ones!) She whispered back. The man of the house immediately leapt from the bed, tiptoed towards the bedroom’s window and peeped from one corner, to catch a glimpse of what was happening,” the DCI said.
He spotted silhouettes of people moving towards the sheep’s kraal, which had been raided one week ago, and immediately raised alarm as his wife joined him in a melodic cacophony of screams.
“Uuuuuui! Uuuuuuui! Wezi! Wezi! Mutiuke na nimokire! (Come to our aid! the miscreants have arrived) The terrified thugs immediately scattered from the compound and jumped over the perimeter while one of them took cover inside an incomplete structure.
“The neighbours responded immediately and Chege who was pacing up and down the house screaming unlocked the door while pointing towards the direction of the incomplete building, where the remaining thug had taken refuge,” the DCI added.
A 30-year-old man was flushed out of the structure and beaten with less consideration like a government mule.
By the time officers from King’eero police station arrived, the man couldn’t mutter anything apart from his village of Kahuho.
The officers rushed him to Wangige level four hospital but unfortunately, he died an hour later as doctors were trying to save his life.
His body is lying at the hospital’s morgue pending identification and postmortem.
“Members of the public are advised not to apply the law of the jungle in such circumstances but endeavour to reach out to security officers and accord such suspects justice in a court of law.”
