Deya’s son on murder charge

UK police on Wednesday charged a son of embattled London-based Kenyan preacher Gilbert Deya with the murder of his three-year-old boy and the attempted murder of his wife.

Mr Paul Otieno Deya, 31, was subsequently detained under Section 2 of the Mental Heath Act.

Section 2 of the Act allows compulsory admission for assessment followed by medical treatment for a duration of up to 28 days.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said “A Magistrate’s Court appearance will be postponed until a future date”.

Paul was arrested on November 24 after his son, Wilson, was found stabbed to death the previous day.

Since his arrest, he has remained under 24 hours police guard at unidentified South London hospital. He underwent surgery for stab wounds to his neck and body.

Paul was suspected of having killed Wilson and stabbing the boy’s mother, Jacqueline Achieng Otieno, 28, in a ferocious knife attack at their home on Lynton Road, Southwark, South East London before turning the knife on himself.

The couple’s 17-month-old daughter, Valerie, was not harmed in the incident.

Mrs Otieno is believed to be staying with her adopted West Indies family in Peckham South London while Valerie is in custody of Southwark Social Services.

Paul was adopted by Pastor Deya after his father, Wilson Deya, died in the 1970s. He arrived in the UK in the late 1990s along with Bishop 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 took media studies at Croydon College along with his cousin Dan in 2003.

Fighting extradition

Pastor Deya is fighting extradition from the UK, arguing he is unlikely to get justice.

The preacher, who runs his world-wide Gilbert Deya Ministries from Ormside Road, Peckham, South London, has 34,000 followers in the UK alone.

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

He claims to have enabled 22 infertile and menopausal women to have “miracle babies”. His wife, Mary Deya, is serving a prison term for child theft.

Paul and Jacqueline worked for the Gilbert Deya Ministries in London.