Confessed killer Phillip Onyancha’s tape played

A video tape in which confessed serial killer Phillip Onyancha narrates how he went on a killing spree was played to a packed courtroom in Nairobi on Wednesday.

Mr Onyancha talks of his craving for human blood, which he says could only be sated with the rape and strangulation of his victims.

He is on trial for the kidnap and murder of a nine-year-old boy whose decomposed body was found in a thicket in Lenana, Nairobi, on April 5, 2010 after he allegedly demanded ransom from the boy’s parents.

Police officer Benjamin Mwaliko recorded the confession and presented the video, which was admitted as an exhibit.

In the video, the suspect, speaking flawless Swahili, states that a female teacher initiated him into the occult. He tells of many murders he committed while working in Nyeri as a watchman.

'SUPERNATURAL' ABILITY

Mr Onyancha tells the detective that once 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 raped, killed and drank their blood.

He says he killed a boy in Naivasha and later saw the child’s desperate parents on TV asking for the whereabouts of their son whose body he had hidden and was decomposing in a thicket.

Mr Onyancha also recounts how he killed a woman in Karen, Nairobi. He says he subdued her with his “supernatural” ability  and carried her to the ceiling of a building he was guarding where he raped and killed her.

“I drank her blood and stashed her body in the ceiling where it lay for a month,” he confesses on the tape.

Thereafter he would “easily disassociate himself from the act” as the feeling wore off before he could stalk his next victim.

He confesses that he was out to kill a 100 people before he was arrested after killing 17.

Defence lawyers had opposed the production of the tape in court, stating that it was not made in “standard procedure”.

Two prosecution witnesses will give evidence on Thursday.