Suspected Killers of Three-Year-Old Baby David Arrested Near Kenya-Tanzania Border

The suspected killers of a three-year-old boy whose body was found dumped at Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital morgue last month has been arrested.

Phyllis Njeri, who is said to have tortured David Ndung’u to death was smoked out of her hideout at Illasit village, close to the Kenya-Tanzanian border by detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).

Investigations revealed that Baby David was brutally murdered by Njeri and her husband Jockson Ngui, while his six-year-old elder brother Peter Ndung’u watched in shock. 

David and Peter had been left under the care of Njeri by their mother Maureen Njoki, who had left the country in November last year for Saudi Arabia in search of greener pastures. 

Barely four months after her departure, Njoki received the devastating news of her son’s brutal killing, triggering online outrage by Kenyans who called on the DCI to bring the suspect to justice. 

Njeri and her husband Ngui were traced to their hideout in the remote village in Kajiado county as they sought to cross the Kenyan border to Tanzania. 

Further forensic analysis conducted at the couple’s house in Kwa Maji area within Mowlem, in Kamukunji, Nairobi revealed that the baby was killed in the house before his body was dumped at Mama Lucy Kibaki’s hospital mortuary. 

Investigators established that the murderous couple had desperately attempted to seek medication at local chemists but the minor was long gone. 

Baby David’s body had severe burns on both hands, legs and buttocks as well as fresh injuries on the neck, back and face, signifying the brutal torture the minor was subjected to before his painful death.

Detectives also recovered a whip that was used to assault the deceased’s elder brother, who was beaten senselessly and threatened with dire consequences should he reveal what had happened to his brother. 

The two suspects are being held in lawful custody pending arraignment to face murder charges.