ALBAWABA - After confessing to the killing of 42 women, serial killer Collins Jumaisi has successfully fled a Nairobi Police cell, along with several other detainees.
"They escaped last night, 13 in total, including the key suspect in the dump murder case," Resila Onyango, a police spokesperson, told AFP. Onyango stated that 12 detainees had fled with Collins Jumaisi, and all were Eritrean nationals.
In July, Jumaisi was arrested by the Kenyan police after the discovery of mutilated bodies in a dump in a slum. The police described him as a "vampire, a psychopath,".
Jumaisi was in court in Nairobi on Friday, and the magistrate ordered that he be kept for another 30 days to allow police to conclude their investigations. Jumaisi was apprehended on July 15th outside a pub where he watched the Euro 2024 football final.
Mohamed Amin, the chief of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, stated following the arrest that Jumaisi admitted to murdering 42 women during a two-year period beginning in 2022, with his wife being his first victim. "We are dealing with a vampire, a psychopath," Amin stated at the time.
Last month, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) reported that the bodies of ten women were discovered in plastic bags at an abandoned quarry in Nairobi's Mukuru slum.
The state-funded KNCHR said in July that it was conducting its own inquiry into the Mukuru case because "there is a need to rule out any possibility of extrajudicial killings".
Kenya's police watchdog, the Independent Policing Oversight Authority, said it was investigating if there was any police participation or a "failure to act to prevent" the deaths.
Rights organizations frequently accuse Kenyan police of carrying out unlawful killings or conducting hit squads, although few have been prosecuted.
