Suspect in family’s deaths case to be held for two weeks
Ann Wambui Nyoro, a key suspect in the mysterious death of a couple and their three children is escorted to a waiting car by CID officers after they successfully applied for her detention in the next two weeks at a Kiambu county on December 2, 2014 to facilitate further investigation. PHOTO | ERIC WAINAINA | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- Ms Ann Wambui Nyoro is being held by police over the deaths of Mr Paul Muhiu Magu, his wife Lydia Wangui and daughter Tiffany Muthoni.
- Mr Otieno told Kiambu principal magistrate Catherine Oluoch that even after the killing of Ms Wangui, the suspect remained with Mr Magu and they visited several places together.
- Ms Nyoro is also alleged to have stayed at the family’s house at Pipeline, Muthaiga, for four days. According to the couple’s househelp Margaret Njoki, Ms Nyoro performed rituals usually associated with the occult during her stay.
A suspect in the deaths of a lawyer, his wife and daughter will be detained for two weeks, a court ruled Tuesday.
The couple’s two other children are still missing.
Ms Ann Wambui Nyoro is being held by police over the deaths of Mr Paul Muhiu Magu, his wife Lydia Wangui and daughter Tiffany Muthoni.
Sons Allen, 9 and Ryan, 8, have not been found. Muthoni was five years old.
Homicide officer Maxwell Otieno told a Kiambu court they believe Ms Nyoro had important information that could help unearth the mysterious deaths. She was arrested on Monday.
Mr Magu intended to transfer the ownership of some of his properties to Ms Nyoro in a will with advocate John Odhiambo.
Ms Nyoro is also alleged to have stayed at the family’s house at Pipeline, Muthaiga, for four days. According to the couple’s househelp Margaret Njoki, Ms Nyoro performed rituals usually associated with the occult during her stay.
Mr Otieno told Kiambu principal magistrate Catherine Oluoch that even after the killing of Ms Wangui, the suspect remained with Mr Magu and they visited several places together.
CONSTANT COMMUNICATION
The detective said Ms Nyoro was a close family friend and was in constant communication with Mr Magu before and after the killings and disappearances.
The decomposing body of five-year-old Muthoni was found in a coffee plantation in Ruiru on Monday evening. It had a deep cut on the neck and hands.
Police have asked anyone with information about the two brothers, Allen and Ryan to volunteer it.
Ms Wangui went missing on November 23 and her partially burnt body was found in a thicket near Paradise Lost in Kiambu. The following day, Mr Magu left home in the family car with his three children at around 10am.
He returned to the house hours later but without the children and left almost immediately for his rural village in Kiganjo, Thika.
He was hit and killed by a bus at Ngoliba on the Thika-Garissa Highway.
