Police in Kiambu have been granted 14 days to detain a suspect who faked the death of his nonexistent son to complete investigations.
Kikuyu Senior Resident Magistrates Catherine Mugo approved a miscellaneous application by the Kabete police to continue holding one Wilson Isoyi in a bid to finalize their investigations.
The middle-aged Wilson Isoyi was arrested on Monday at Gaitubi, Kabete sub-county after it dawned on mourners that he had all along lied to them that his son had died.
The cunning suspect told neighbours and friends that his son disappeared on January 5 2023, only for his lifeless body to be discovered by police two days later.
He and his neighbours immediately started burial preparations in readiness for the burial which was to be held in Emuhaya, Vihiga county.
Mourners and well-wishers managed to raise more than Ksh 100,000 to cater for the boy’s decent interment and handed the same to the ‘bereaved’ family.
“We had already given him money for the casket and hearse plus the printing of the burial program and eulogy and we were now waiting for the burial day,” Mary Wanjiku, a neighbour said.
The suspect’s mischief started bubbling to the surface when the eulogy printer asked for the deceased’s picture and which the father didn’t have.
“The burial preparation committee told him to avail a photo of the boy but he had none. He started giving flimsy excuses including the fact that it’s against his cultural beliefs to put it in the eulogy, ” Wanjiku explained.
