Homa Bay: Seven arrested after university student succumbs to brutal beating

Police in Homabay County on Friday arrested seven employees of a local restaurant in connection with the death of a fourth-year student from Tom Mboya University.

The seven individuals; Jacob Okeyo Omollo, Baraka Odhiambo Jude, Monica Atieno, David Ochieng, Arnoder Atieno, Kennedy Ouma Otieno and Pamela Onyango Otieno, were apprehended by police after the victim, Paul Sunday, was found stripped naked, beaten and bound within Dalawa Hotel and Restaurant.  

Sunday later succumbed to the injuries at Homabay County Referral Hospital.

Police got wind of the situation after a Homabay County Enforcement Officer reported the student's predicament shortly after visiting the establishment.

"Please be informed that  a report was received from an Enforcement Officer of Homabay County that today at around  1330 hrs he visited Dalawa Hotel and Restaurant which is  within homabay township  and found some commotion  there," a police report documenting the incident reads.

"He  further reported  that he found  one student of Tom Mboya university namely Paul Sunday, a fourth-year student,  being naked  and tied with  ropes in the  hands and legs inside the counter  of the said facility. Homabay police officers  went to the scene and established  that the said student was really  tied with  ropes as reported and  tied  in the metal bars of the  said  counter door."  

"He was bleeding profusely; they rescued and rushed him to Homabay County Referral Hospital where  he succumbed  due to the injuries," the police report adds.  

"The body was processed by CSI officers and the same  preserved in the said  hospital morgue pending autopsy."

The seven suspects remain in custody pending arraignment on Monday, as investigations into the incident continue.