I was not involved in "friend's" death, says Otieno

Former television anchor Louis Otieno has denied involvement in the death of Careen Chepchumba whom he described as a "friend".

Mr Otieno has been questioned by police several times, his DNA samples taken and is hoping the findings would show he was not at Ms Chepchumba’s house when she died.

“I am driven by the fact that I'm innocent. I would like to know the truth. We also had a discussion (with the police) about who else would undergo the same DNA sampling. It did not end with me. They are taking it further. There are people, for good reasons, that will have to undergo the same thing,” he said in Nairobi Tuesday

He was accompanied by his lawyer Philip Murgor.

Mr Otieno said the last time he visited Ms Chepchumba’s house at Santonia court in Kilimani, where the body was found, was "early this month".

The woman was found dead in her bed on Tuesday last week and was initially thought to have committed suicide. But pathologists later established that she was strangled.

Describing the deceased as a “friend,” he revealed they had a troubled relationship citing her parents’ opposition to it.

“Our friendship in the way she was friends with me was violently resisted by her parents. That’s  one of  the issues where she was seeking help. I did what I could to help her get assistance in that area,” said Mr Otieno.

“Her parents beat her up. They did. Not once, not twice. It was an issue and we did seek intervention about it. Because of the violence that was meted out on her, we went to family friends and had a meeting with them."