The Director of Public Prosecution, Noordin Haji, has formed a special team to investigate suspected serial killer Evans Juma Wanjala.
The Office of the DPP, on Thursday, August 12 informed the Eldoret Principal Magistrate Court that it had constituted a special committee to look into the files presented to it by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), in order to align the charges properly.
The suspect appeared before Justice Naomi Wairimu through a virtual session where the DPP was granted more time to carry out further investigations.
The Committee will be meeting on Thursday, August 19, 2021, to review the charges against the suspect.
Wanjala, who is the key suspect in Moi’s Bridge kidnapping, defilement and murders, will wait until August 23, to take a plea.
Detectives from the DCI arrested Wanjala in a case involving the kidnapping and murder of five minors aged between 10 and 15 years in different locations within Moi's Bridge area of Uasin Gishu County.
The DCI stated that Wafula took detectives on a re-enactment of how he lured the minors to his trap.
DCI stated that the suspect took them to the scene of every murder.
"During the re-enactment, Homicide detectives augmented by their Scenes of Crime, and Photographic & Acoustics counterparts, documented forensically each of the five murder scenes, as the executioner demonstrated how he abducted, defiled, murdered and dumped the bodies of the minors.
"Further forensic analysis at the DCI forensic lab, positively connected the suspect to the murder of the minors," the DCI stated.
The DCI stated that Wafula has a criminal record as he was arrested and charged with defilement in 2018 but was freed on bond by a Kibwezi Court.
