Form Four student defiled, strangled to death in Kisumu

Police in Muhoroni Sub-county, Kisumu County are investigating the brutal murder of a 17-year-old female Form Four student whose decomposing body was found dumped in a sugarcane plantation in Migingo area.

The half-naked body had visible strangle wounds on the neck with police suspecting that she was defiled before her life was taken away.

The deceased, a student at Nyando Mixed Secondary Day School in Muhoroni was reported missing on Monday this week by her parents after she failed to return home from school.

Last evening, eyewitnesses spotted dogs leaving the sugarcane plantation with body parts prompting locals to inform the police.

The decomposing body was found lying in the plantation with both her legs and hands already eaten by dogs. Her tongue was also protruding a sign that she was strangled to death.

Police are already holding a male suspect identified as Lawrence Owuor aged 30 in connection with the brutal killing which has left the village in shock.

DCI officers took away the body to St Vincent Mission Hospital for a postmortem as investigations continue.