‘Serial killer’ on rape and assault charges
Self-confessed serial killer Philip Onyancha has a case to answer for attempted rape and assault.
“After carefully considering evidence adduced before me by prosecution witnesses, I found that the accused has a case to answer,” said Kibera senior resident magistrate Margaret Kasera.
Bodily harm
Mr Onyancha asked the court to give him until July 6 to prepare for his defence. The application was allowed.
The prosecutor told the court that Mr Onyancha attempted to rape his 18-year-old neighbour at Lenana Forest in Nairobi in February 2009.
He was alternatively charged with indecently assaulting the complainant by touching her private parts. The accused is also said to have assaulted the complainant causing her actual bodily harm.
Earlier, the court heard that the complainant was going to Karen Health Centre on foot. She found Mr Onyancha standing near the forest in Lenana. She greeted him and he responded.
The complainant told the court that Mr Onyancha got hold of her hand and hugged her, but when she tried to disengage herself, the accused dragged her into the bush where he started touching her private parts.
“I told him to stop but he wrestled me down and started removing my underpants. He also tried to remove my skirt,” said the complainant.
“When he failed to remove my underpants, he took a stone and started hitting me on the head,” she said.
As they were still struggling, two forests rangers came and rescued her. Mr Onyancha escaped into the forest.
In another matter, investigations in a case in which a high school teacher, Ms Elizabeth Wambui Kimani, was charged with administering an unlawful oath to Mr Onyancha are complete, a court heard.
Chief Inspector Francis Ndiema, prosecuting, applied for the case be listed for hearing this Friday because of the absence of Mr Onyancha, a key witness. The application was allowed.
The Kahawa Kitamaiyu Day School teacher denied the charge.
The court heard that on unknown dates in 1996 at Kenyatta High School Mahiga, in Nyeri District, Mr Onyancha’s Kiswahili and CRE teacher administered an oath on him, purporting to bind him to commit murder when called upon to do so.
