The prime suspect in the murder of LGBTQ activist and model Edwin Chiloba will be arraigned before an Eldoret court on Monday (09.01.23).
Jacktone Odhiambo is accused of killing the fashion model. According to Uasin Gishu Director of Criminal Investigations Peter Kimulwo, Odhiambo will be arraigned alongside three other suspects said to be his accomplices.
Police have also seized a car that is suspected to have been used in carrying Chiloba’s body which was later dumped by the roadside.
A team of forensic experts from Nairobi was expected to travel to Eldoret to assist in the investigations.
Chiloba was on Friday found murdered and his body stuffed in a metal box that was dumped at Kipkaren on the outskirts of Eldoret Town, Uasin Gishu County.
Odhiambo confessed to killing the model over allegations that he cheated on him.
Police revealed that he executed the murder with the help of his two friends. The suspect confessed to have murdered Chiloba as revenge for betraying him. Odhiambo who had been living with the deceased for one year in Eldoret was arrested on Friday as the main suspect in the murder. The two lived together as husband and wife.
Chiloba’s caretaker Alex Nyamweya said that Odhiambo called him using Chiloba’s phone on January informing him that he was vacating the house they lived in.
“He told the neighbors it was a dead rat that was smelling when they sought to know what was smelling from the house they lived,” Uasin Gishu county DCI boss Peter Kimulwo said.
Kimulwo said preliminary findings show the deceased appeared to have been strangled and one eye was gouged out.
