Kenyan accused of cannibalism ‘sorry’
Police mugshots of Alexander Kinyua (left) and 37-year-old Ghanaian, Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie. Mr Kinyua is suspected of killing his Ghanian house-mate and eating parts of his body. Photo/COURTESY
A 22-year-old Kenyan man accused of cannibalism apologised in a US court for carrying out a separate attack on a fellow student.
“My deepest apology and sympathies will not be able to cover up what happened,” Mr Alexander Kinyua said in pleading guilty, on Wednesday, but denied criminal responsibility in a beating that left his victim blind in one eye.
Judge Gale Rasin, presiding over a court in Baltimore, ordered Kinyua committed to a psychiatric hospital. He could eventually be released if a team of doctors and a judge deem Mr Kinyua to no longer be a menace to society.
“I don’t agree with the court system that he has a chance to be let go,” Mr Kinyua’s alleged victim Joshua Ceasar, 22, said outside the courtroom on Wednesday, according to the Baltimore Sun newspaper. “He shouldn’t see the light of day.”
Murder charge
In ordering Mr Kinyua’s confinement, judge Rasin said: “The evidence is overwhelming that Mr Kinyua was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the offence,” according to the Sun’s account.
Prosecutors say they will now move ahead with a first-degree murder charge against Mr Kinyua stemming from the dismemberment of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, a 37-year-old Ghanaian who had been living in the Kinyua family home in Maryland.
