Fear of divorce may have sparked murder

• Preacher’s kin held in London hospital over death of his child and stabbing of wife

Jacqueline was taken to hospital suffering a stab wound to the neck. She has since been discharged and is being looked after by her adopted West Indies family in Peckham.

The death is being investigated by officers led by Detective Inspector Keith Braithwaite, based at Stratford Police Station in East London.

The couple married in 2005 at Deya’s London church, which Deya officiated.

Mr Sam Ochieng, Director of SACOMA, a London-based NGO said the Kenyan community in the UK was in deep shock.

“This is a real tragedy, everyone is asking what compelled a normal family man to kill his own son in cold blood?”

Meanwhile it emerged on Thursday, that British Home Office was reviewing Bishop Deya’s extradition order to Kenya.

A well placed source told the Nation that Home Office lawyers were reviewing the decision to extradite Bishop Deya to see whether it breaches his human rights.

The controversial preacher’s lawyers had written to the Home Office protesting that the extradition of their client was in breach of European Convention on Human Rights.

Extradition order

The Home Office said: “Deya has exhausted his statutory avenues of appeal against extradition. We then received representations alleging extradition would breach his human rights.”

Bishop Deya is fighting extradition to Kenya in a complex and costly legal tussle in British courts. It is believed the legal costs amounted to more than £1 million (Sh124 million).

Bishop Deya, who runs his worldwide Gilbert Deya Ministries from Ormside Road, Peckham, with 34,000 followers in the UK alone, is now a failed asylum seeker currently ordered to report weekly at Deptford Police Station in South London.

Impeccable sources told Nation that Bishop Deya’s extradition is not a question of if but when, and he could be extradited from London before Christmas.

The preacher is wanted in Kenya on five counts of abducting children aged between 22 months and four-and-a-half years between 1999 and 2004.