Student Who Killed Embu Priest, Buried Him Handed Many Years in Jail

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The main suspect in the brutal killing of Catholic priest Michael Kyengo, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, at the Embu Law Courts.

The suspect, Michael Mutunga who brutally murdered Fr Kyengo by strangulating him before slitting his throat open, confessed to killing the clergyman on the night between October 8 and 9, 2019. The convict was a university student at the time.

The priest’s body was discovered in a shallow grave on the riverbed of Mashamba seasonal river in Makina location, about 15 kilometres from Gategi shopping centre in Mbeere, Embu County.

In yet another murder puzzle cracked by DCI’s homicide division, a blow-by-blow account of how the cleric’s killer planned and executed the murder most foul was documented and presented before Laddy Justice Lucy Njuguna.

Confronted by the overwhelming forensic evidence, cyber crime analysis and accounts from over 10 witnesses, the mastermind of the killing found himself in a tight corner and opted to plead guilty.

On October 8, 2019, 40-year-old Father Michael Kyengo, who until his untimely demise was serving at Thatha catholic parish in Masinga, Machakos county, left home in Tala at around 5pm, headed to Gategi shopping centre in Embu, approximately 128 kilometres from Tala. He was on his annual leave from his workstation and was overseeing the construction of a perimeter fence at his home.

The cleric was driving his vehicle, a dark blue Toyota axio and was in constant communication with his killer Michael Mutunga, whom they had known each other for a period of time.

Unbeknownst to him, Mutunga who had planned to kill him for over two months was leading him to a death trap. He had bought a gunny bag and a sharp knife way back in August, and was only waiting for the perfect time to strike. Father Kyengo arrived at around 9pm and met with Mutunga.

Moments later, the priest was forced into his vehicle with his hands tied using a rope. He was driven to Mashamba seasonal river, 15 kilometres from Gategi shopping centre where the suspect strangled him before slitting his neck using a knife.

The killer knife was one of the key exhibits secured by the homicide detectives, who rummaged through the sludge of a pit latrine and recovered it.

After killing the man of God, Mutunga stuffed his lifeless body in the gunny bag and buried his remains in a shallow grave before driving off using the deceased’s vehicle.

The suspect, using the clergyman’s vehicle then proceeded to Mwea town where he made an Mpesa withdrawal of Sh69,000. The suspect had in a bid to conceal his actions registered a new sim card, using a stolen identity card belonging to a woman based in Kirinyaga.

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