A postmortem is set to be conducted today on the body of a 25-year-old man who died mysteriously while in custody at Kwangware Police Post on Tuesday, June 4.
Chaos erupted at the police post Tuesday when the family of Hussein Koropisa Bacho was informed that he had died while being taken to Kenyatta National Hospital.
However, the family insists that their kin died on Monday around 3 pm while in police custody.
Dagoretti OCPD Kivindu Kilonzo told TV47 Digital that police rescued Bacho from a mob that was baying for his blood.
“The deceased had been subjected to mob justice after assaulting some other person. Police officers responded and rescued him,” Kivindu says.
The police boss, however, says that as the officers at the post were planning to take him to hospital, it appears that the deceased strangled himself using his shirt.
Kivindu insists that Bacho was then rushed to hospital and pronounced dead on arrival.
“He was not in our police cells. He was rushed to hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. But the matter has been taken up by DCI Dagoretti, and a postmortem will be conducted today God willing,” he adds.
Residents engaged police in running battles, demanding answers as to how and why Bacho died.
“A police informer came to my home around 10pm with a T-shirt, claiming my son used it to commit suicide while in custody. When we got to the station, the story changed; they claimed he was a victim of mob justice. Clearly, these inconsistencies speak volume,” Noor Gabow, Bacho’s father, told journalists.
It is also emerging that that Bacho has previously served time at Industrial Area Prison over robbery but was later released.
“He has been out for almost a year since he left Industrial Area Prison. The crime that got him behind bars involved being found in possession of a motorbike that had been linked to a crime,” says Abdulaziz Koropisa, the deceased’s elder brother.
“Why did it take so long to notify us of our brother’s death? We saw his body at City Mortuary, he had a ring-like mark around his neck. How can a T-shirt cause such a mark? The injury on his neck must have been inflicted by something like a wire. The suicide story is a cover-up,” the brother added.
More details to follow…
