Knife murder rocks Deya family

The Daily Mirror, a London tabloid, reported that Paul and his wife were partners in a broke video editing business, J Okendo Ltd. A well-placed source told the Nation that Jacqueline was being looked after by her adopted West Indies family in Peckham, South London.

The couple’s 17-month baby girl, Velarie, is in the custody of Southwark Social Services. “The couple handled all Deya’s financial transactions,” said Mr Gakuru, a former Deya business associate. Sources told the Nation that although the couple appeared a normal happy family to the outside world, they were locked in a bitter, arranged marriage. The couple married in 2005 at Deya’s church in London, with Pastor Deya officiating the ceremony.

Sources said Paul was usually quiet and calm. “He was unwell for a while with a heart ailment which was treated at the Nairobi Hospital in 2008,” said Mr Gakuru. Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat MP for North Southwark and Bermondsey, who lives a short distance away from the couple’s home said:“The thoughts and prayers of the country will be with the little girl also found in the flat, and all the family”.

Paul was adopted by Bishop Deya after his biological father, Wilson Deya died in the 1970s. He arrived in the UK in the late 1990s along with Deya’s other children, Amos, Dan, Rebecca, Jane, David and Moses. Moses is now in the custody of social services after DNA paternity results proved he was not Pastor Deya’s son. Paul’s brother, Walter lives in Nairobi with his wife, Annete. Paul studied media studies at Croydon College along with his cousin Dan in 2003.