The investigation into the February 12, 2023 “forced abortion” that killed a 22-year-old Dedan Kimathi University student is now focusing on ten suspects, including the father of her unborn child.
After impregnating Regina Wairimu, a fourth-year telecommunications and electrical engineering student, the man is suspected of wanting to get rid of the unborn child.
“Investigations are progressing steadily with a pool of suspects that includes that man and others locally [in Nyeri], with the hope that soon we will separate the wheat from the chaff and be advised on the way forward by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions,” said Nyeri County Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) boss John Gacheru.
According to him, the DCI has placed all persons of interest in a covert monitoring program to protect them from any harm motivated by a cover-up.
Regina told her friends on February 11 that she was going to a Nyeri bar to meet the father of her unborn child.
Detectives believe she met with several people in this bar, including the resident DJ and two women. They later went to one of the two women’s rental house in the Kengemi estate on the outskirts of Nyeri town, where Regina is believed to have had her eight-and-a-half-month-old fetus forcedly aborted.
After Regina died, there is a young woman who, together with a male companion, visited the deceased’s rural home riding in a vehicle described as a “BMW driven by a man who was introduced by the girl as a link to influence and power” to “look into any difficulties the family might be encountering in funding the burial”.
The two had even proposed to the family that “we can just let this issue [go away]without any investigations; we settle everything and leave the rest to God”.
Mr. Gacheru said Regina’s phone had been formatted to erase all records “but that is not an issue, we are adequately empowered by technology to retrieve all of the lost data and we will study them”.
He added that forensic analysis on blood spots that were found in the house as well as fingerprints on the two bags will also feature prominently in the investigations.
