Details of the murder of Joyce Syombua and her two children Shanice Maua and Prince Michael who were discovered in a shallow grave within Thingithu Estate in Nanyuki have started unfolding.
According to a report by The Standard Newspaper, police discovered that the major tried to solicit for the help of a taxi driver from Nanyuki to help him move the bodies to the grave where they were discovered.
The Laikipia County Criminal Investigation Officer Peter Muinde informed The Standard that they received a report from the taxi driver. The man disclosed to the police that Peter had requested him to help him carry out a task at Laikipia Air Base.
At the same time, Mugure also asked him to bring with him three sacks and a rope to tie the luggage.
The taxi driver got suspicious of the request and declined to assist. The driver told the police he declined because he was unsure of the contents of the luggage or their destination.
Peter Mugure then resorted to using his own car to ferry the bodies to the Kilimo where police say the cleaner helped him bury the deceased.
The mother and her children went missing after they had gone to visit Peter Mugure at his house in Nanyuki Airbase.
The Police were lead to the crime scene by a cleaner who works at the Airbase only identified as Collins.
"The children have deep cuts in the whole body and the mother could have been strangled to death” Muinde told the Standard.
The bodies were exhumed by detectives and Military police on November 16. They were taken to Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital Mortuary.
Major Peter Mugure was arrested and is still at Timau. The Cleaner was also arrested and held at Nanyuki Police Station.
