Onyacha recounts his killing spree in recorded confession

A video tape in which self-confessed serial killer Phillip Onyacha recounts his murder spree that spread across major towns in Kenya was played in a parked courtroom in Nairobi on Wednesday.

In the two-hour recording played before trial judge Nicholas Ombija, Mr Onyancha reveals his “dark side” of craving human blood that he says could only be gratified with a forced sexual encounter and strangulation of his victim(s).

Mr Onyancha is on trial for the kidnapping and murder of a nine-year-old boy, whose decomposed body was found in a thicket near Lenana in Nairobi on April 5, 2010 after he allegedly demanded ransom from his parents.

A police officer, Mr Benjamin Mwaliko, who recorded the confession, presented the video that was marked and admitted as an exhibit in the case.

In the video, the suspect appears seated next to the officer and handcuffed from behind, speaking in flawless Swahili.

He states that a female teacher initiated him into the occult and confesses to drinking blood from his subdued victims when he worked as a security guard in Naivasha before he was transferred to Nairobi.

He also recounts numerous murders he committed while working in Nyeri.

At one time, Mr Onyanch tells the detective that once he is seized by spirits he could stupefy his victims, mainly women and boys, by mere eye contact before taking them into lodgings or into the bush, where he defiled them before killing them and drinking their blood.

RECOUNTS BOY'S MURDER

He recounts killing a young boy in Naivasha and later seeing the child’s desperate parents on TV asking for the whereabouts of their son, whose body he had hidden in a thicket.

In the tape, Onyancha also recounts the macabre killing of a woman in Karen, Nairobi.

He said he subdued the woman with his “supernatural” ability and carried her to the roof of a building he was guarding where he raped and later killed her.

“I drank her blood and stashed her body in the ceiling, where it lay for about a month,” the suspect confesses in the video.

He states that thereafter he could “easily disassociate himself from the act” as the feeling wore off before he could stalk his next victim.

In the tape, he also confesses that he was on a mission to kill 100 people before he was arrested after committing 17 murders.

A team of defence lawyers had opposed the production of the tape, stating that it was not made in “standard procedure” as required in law to be admitted as evidence in the murder case.

The prosecution, however, said the tape was not the only evidence against the suspect but wanted the court to acquaint itself with the “character of Onyancha”.

Two more prosecution witnesses are expected to testify Thursday.